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The odyssey of Phillis Wheatley : a poet's journeys through American slavery and independence
\"A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Anonymous Wheatley and the Archive in Plain Sight: A Tentative Attribution of Nine Published Poems, 1773-1775
When as part of my research into Wheatley I read extensively in contemporary newspapers and magazines that Wheatley and her circles might have read, I stumbled on a surprising, and striking, number of poems that read as if they not merely could be Wheatley's, but seem extremely likely to have been written by her. This essay presents those poems and makes the case for attribution in biographical and historical as well as lexical terms, and explores the implications of Wheatley having had especially strong incentives to publish some work anonymously, especially for a specific period after the publication of her book and her emancipation. In the wake of her fame and the politicization of slavery in the midst of the imperial controversy, anonymous and pseudonymous publication would have allowed her more control over the present and future of her writing than she had actually had before 1774 or possessed later, during the straitened literary and publishing scene of the Revolutionary War years.
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John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery : selections from the diary
Expertly edited by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery offers an unusual perspective on the dramatic and shifting politics of slavery in the early republic, as it moved from the margins to the center of public life and from the shadows to the substance of Adams's politics. The editors provide a lucid introduction to the collection as a whole and frame the individual documents with brief and engaging insights, rendering both Adams's life and the controversies over slavery into a mutually illuminating narrative. By juxtaposing Adams's personal reflections on slavery with what he said-and did not say-publicly on the issue, the editors offer a nuanced portrait of how he interacted with prevailing ideologies during his consequential career and life.
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John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery : selections from the diary
\"This edition of John Quincy Adams's diary focuses on the dramatic politics of slavery as it moved from the margins to the center of American public life. The editors selected the most important and representative entries relating to slavery. They render both Adams' life and the controversies over slavery into a mutually illuminating narrative\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams (wiley-blackwell companions to american history)
A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine. Features contributions from top historians and Adams' scholars Considers sub-topics of interest such as John Adams' role in the late 18th-century demise of the Federalists, both Adams' presidencies and efforts as diplomats, religion, and slavery Includes two chapters on Abigail Adams and one on Louisa Adams
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Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis
Interpretive patterns in the scholarship on the American Revolution have been less linear and dual than tripartite and cyclical, spiraling through whig, progressive, imperial,
neo-whig, neo-progressive, and, most recently, neo-imperial alternatives. As the Quarterly relaunched in 1944, a transition in the cycle was already under way,
from an imperial- and progressive-school détente to a neo-whig ascendancy, even as calls for synthesis abounded: each turn in the cycle has featured the appropriation of themes and
arguments as well as the rejection of competing analyses and the specific subjects these analyses tended to highlight. 1993 was a moment of transition—alternately celebrated or
lamented—as a neo-imperial view of the revolution arose, decentering its republican, liberal, and nationalizing aspects in favor of imperial or transnational continuities. Whether
in continental, Atlantic, diasporic, or age of revolution modes, the recent emphases on imperial connections, parallels, and broader optics have begun to reenliven American
Revolution scholarship even as they tend to change definitions of what historians mean by “the revolution.” Moreover, recent trends suggest not so much the centrality of the
American Revolution to early American, U.S., Atlantic, and global history as, increasingly, the importance of those fields in shaping views of the American Revolution.
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Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence
“Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery” offers a broad economic interpretation of the coming of the American Revolution. It does not ignore or discount leadership and political rhetoric but seeks to overcome what the authors term “historiographical amnesia” concerning economic causes. Examination of arguments made both in Great Britain and by delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses, as well as the reasoning of Thomas Jefferson’s several “dress rehearsals” for the Declaration of Independence, reveals unappreciated relationships between the Founders’ desire to break away from imperial regulation of trade and their failure to abolish slavery. The essay perceives the American Revolution as one among many efforts by colonies anxious to determine their own destinies rather than the ‘exceptional’ event presented both by recent scholarship and by opinion makers outside the academy.
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