1st Edition
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century
1 Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World 1
SEOHYON JUNG
2 Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World 18
VICTORIA BARNETT-WOODS
3 “Commencing Merchant”: Forms of Feeling and Logics of Capital in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) 46
EMILEE DURAND
4 “Peruvia’s Bleeding Land”: Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru 74
LEAH M. THOMAS
5 Religion, Sexuality, and Antislavery Resistance: The Hart Sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic World 104
JAMIE ROSENTHAL
6 “A Cure, Both for Soul and Body”: Transculturation in Robinson Crusoe’s Tobacco “Application” 128
COREY GOERGEN
7 “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure”: Counterfeit Coins and Imperial Commerce in
1770s Jamaica 148
DAVID MAZELLA
8 Currency, Credit, and Trust: Naval Victualing at the Cape Colony, 1795–1815 167
ELIZABETH C. LIBERO
9 Epilogue: Reimagining the Edge of Transatlantic Commerce as Center 188
LEAH M. THOMAS AND SEOHYON JUNG
Biography
Seohyon Jung received her Ph.D. in English from Tufts University in 2020. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the ideas of motherhood, women's labor, and theories of colonial modernity. She currently teaches at Seoul National University.
Leah M. Thomas is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Literature at Virginia State University.
