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Chapter 8 · Reading ledger

Notes on
The Early Republic

41 citations, collected away from the main text for uninterrupted reading.

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Section 08.01

I. Introduction

  1. Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776), in Eric Foner, ed., Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Library of America, 1995), 23.[]

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Section 08.02

II. Free and Enslaved Black Americans and the Challenge to Slavery

  1. David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of The United States of America (Hill and Wang, 1995), 21, 56.[]

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  2. John Russwurm, “The Condition and Prospects of Hayti,” in African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents , ed. Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon (Routledge, 2013), 168.[]

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  3. “Republic of Hayti,” Colored American , March 15, 1838, 2.[]

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  4. Benjamin Rush, “Observations Intended to Favour a Supposition That the Black Color (As It Is Called) of the Negroes Is Derived from the Leprosy,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4 (1799): 289–97, https://​doi​.org/​10​.2307/​1005108.[]

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  5. Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1791, Founders Online, National Archives, http://​founders​.archives​.gov/​documents/​Jefferson/​01​-22​-02​-0049.[]

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Section 08.03

III. Jeffersonian Republicanism

  1. Fisher Ames, “The Mire of a Democracy,” in W. B. Allen, ed., Works of Fisher Ames , vol. 1 (Liberty Fund, 1984), 6, 7.[]

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  2. James M. Banner, “The Election of 1801 and James A. Bayard’s Distinterested Constitutionalism,” Journal of the Early Republic 44, no. 3 (2024): 343.[]

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  3. “From the Palladium. A Plain Fact.” Connecticut Courant (Hartford), January 26, 1801.[]

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  4. Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, January 25, 1810, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810, ed. J. Jefferson Looney (Princeton University Press, 2006), 183.[]

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  5. Jefferson to Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819, http://​www​.loc​.gov/​exhibits/​jefferson/​137​.html.[]

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  6. Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer June 5, 1787, in Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer , June 5, 1787, in The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution , vol. 13, ed. John P. Kaminski and Gaspare J. Saladino (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1981),126–27. The digital edition of the first twenty volumes is available through the University of Virginia Press Rotunda project, edited by John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, et al., http://​rotunda​.upress​.virginia​.edu/​founders/​RNCN​.html.[]

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  7. Alexandria Times, and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser (Alexandria, VA), July 2, 1800; Constitutional Telegraphe (Boston), February 15 and December 6, 1800; Carlisle Gazette (Carlisle, PA), November 6, 1799.[]

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  8. See Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (University of North Carolina Press, 1997); Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).[]

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Section 08.04

IV. Jefferson as President

  1. Jefferson to John B. Colvin, September 20, 1810, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney (Princeton University Press, 2007), 99, 100, 101.[]

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  2. Francis Cogliano, Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2014).[]

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  3. Kevin Vrevich, “Mr. Ely’s Amendment: Massachusetts Federalists and the Politicization of Slave Representation,” American Nineteenth Century History 19, no. 2 (2018): 159–76, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1080/​14664658​.2018​.1466436.[]

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  4. “Highly Important Motion,” Repertory (Boston), June 15, 1804.[]

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  5. John Quincy Adams, writing as “Publius Valerius,” quoted in Vrevich, “Mr. Ely’s Amendment,” 166.[]

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  6. “Debate on Mr. Ely’s Motion. Continued.” The Repertory (Boston), September 21, 1804.[]

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  7. “From the Repertory. The constitution, as it now stands. . .” Political Star (Portsmouth, NH), October 11, 1804.[]

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  8. Jefferson to the Earl of Buchan Washington, July 10, 1803, in Papers of Thomas Jefferson , vol. 40, 4 March to 10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg (Princeton University Press, 2014), 708–9.[]

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  9. For the Hemings controversy and the DNA evidence, see Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (University of Virginia Press, 1997).[]

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  10. Recorder (Richmond, VA), November 3, 1802.[]

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  11. William Loughton Smith, The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency Examined; and the Charges Against John Adams Refuted. Addressed to the Citizens of America in General; and Particularly to the Electors of the President , 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1796).[]

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Section 08.05

V. Native American Power and the United States

  1. See, for example, Anthony F. C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (Random House, 1969), 111.[]

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  2. Gregory Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 33.[]

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  3. Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South(Harvard University Press, 2009).[]

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  4. Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 149–53.[]

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  5. Quoted in Edward Eggleston and Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet (New York, 1878), 309.[]

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Section 08.06

VI. The War of 1812

  1. Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 187.[]

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  2. Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (Random House, 2010), 5.[]

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  3. Donald R. Hickey, Glorious Victory: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), 8.[]

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  4. Martin Bibbings, “The Battle,” in Tim Voelcker, ed., Broke of the Shannon: And the War of 1812 (Seaworth, 2013), 138.[]

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  5. Public Documents, Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates [. . .]. (Massachusetts State Senate, 1815), 4.[]

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  6. Ronald L. Drez, The War of 1812: Conflict and Deception (Louisiana State University Press, 2014), 154.[]

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  7. Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012[]

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  8. “The Hartford Convention Propositions to Amend the Constitution—Ably Handled.” Essex Register (Salem, MA), April 22, 1815.[]

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  9. Morton Keller, America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History (Oxford University Press, 2007), 69.[]

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  10. Brian Balogh, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 130.[]

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  11. “Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817,” in Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, ed., The Writings of James Monroe , vol. 6 (Putnam, 1902), 11.[]

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