Journal Article

WILLIAM RAY AND DR. JONATHAN COWDERY CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES: A CASE OF POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC

Zerar, Sabrina, Riche, Bouteldja

2018

Overview

The fears that a strong government would become tyrannical were diffused through the system of checks and balances consisting of the separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the national government on the one hand, and between the states and the nation on the other. [...]reassured, the Constitution was finally ratified in 1788 by all the delegates of the states, but not until an additional security for individual rights and liberties was inserted in the Constitution in the form of ten Amendments, constituting the bill of rights. In 1795, through Joseph Donaldson, the American government signed a treaty with Algiers under which terms the United States accepted to pay around $ 642,500 plus an annual tribute in the form of naval stores in return for the liberation of the American captives and the maintenance of peace between the two countries. Because of the difficulty of the treaty payment of such a large amount of money, and the long distance between the two countries, the treaty took effect only on July 11, 1796 when part of the agreed payment was made, and the American slaves, according to Foss, were officially delivered redemption certificates by the Dey of Algiers. For Algiers, the United States continued to be a subordinate nation, whose citizens could be made slaves in the case of breach of treaty. [...]in 1800, in the wake of the Quasi War with France, the United States government ordered for the first time in American naval history the jewel of its naval industry, the George Washington, put under the command of Captain Bainbridge, to enter the Mediterranean. [...]to campaign for the vote of their social inferiors - judged as essentially uninterested in politics - in the manner that the Republicans or Anti-Federalists had proceeded would be undignified and contrary to the natural order of things.

• Publisher: International Journal of Arts and Sciences LLC
• Subject: American history / American literature / Captivity / Constitution / Federalism / Foreign policy / Intercultural communication / Narratives / Naval stores / Navy / Orientalism / Partisanship / Peace / Politics / Puritanism / Slavery / Treaties