Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century

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.

• 1 Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World 1SEOHYON JUNG2 Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World 18VICTORIA BARNETT-WOODS3 “Commencing Merchant”: Forms of Feeling and Logics of Capital in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) 46EMILEE DURAND4 “Peruvia’s Bleeding Land”: Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru 74LEAH M. THOMAS5 Religion, Sexuality, and Antislavery Resistance: The Hart Sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic World 104JAMIE ROSENTHAL6 “A Cure, Both for Soul and Body”: Transculturation in Robinson Crusoe’s Tobacco “Application” 128COREY GOERGEN7 “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure”: Counterfeit Coins and Imperial Commerce in1770s Jamaica 148DAVID MAZELLA8 Currency, Credit, and Trust: Naval Victualing at the Cape Colony, 1795–1815 167ELIZABETH C. LIBERO9 Epilogue: Reimagining the Edge of Transatlantic Commerce as Center 188LEAH M. THOMAS AND SEOHYON JUNG