For 2021 I'm reading, reading... #ReadVast2021
Want more refs for #VastEarlyAmerica books, #museum exhibits, #archives collections, #digitalhumanities projects, #blogs, more? My thread of threads fr #VastEA2019 and #VastEA2020 ++ ⬇️🧵🧵🧵
"The weight of its history makes Richmond an essential place to trace the changing role of death and commemoration." Ryan Smith, _Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries_ (@JHUPress, 2020), 7. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"Colonial American history, by definition a global history, came to be perceived as local history in the nineteenth century." @LDiCuirci _Colonial Revivals_ (2020) p. 11. Congrats to Lindsay for the @librarycompany 1st book award! #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"Admitting slavery as a Canadian institution...forces a reconciliation of the post-emancipation history of Black status in Canada as...anchored in & informed by the sanctioning of slavery." M.ElgersmanLee, _Unyielding Spirits_ (1999),4. #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"When white activists chose to hide their historical tracks, they also obliterated those left by people such as Dinah Nevil .... [a] symbol...that the politics of founding moments have allowed us to forget." Kristen Sword in JAH2010 #VastEarlyAmerica in 1sentence #VastEA2020
"Over the... eighteenth century, manufactured medicines began to circulate at unprecedented scope and scale, reshaping healthcare practices & expectations." @ZPDorner _Merchants of Medicine_ @UChicagoPress 2020 p. 2. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"Adoption, expansion, and slavery would serve as ...intertwined practices...shaping the daily lives of people of American Indian, African, and European descent and... governance." Dawn Peterson, _Indians in the Family_ (2017), p. 9. #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"A Native enslavement venture in Carolina was essential to the success of the larger Van Aerssen family's investment in sugar production in Suriname." @dajohnsonii & Carolyn Arena in the @JourSouHist Feb. 2020. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
"...The power to wield violence was crucial to the assertion of freedom." @njlightfoot _Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation_ (2015), p. 6 #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
“Marie Baude was part of a cohort of African women born of overlapping European and African Atlantics.” @jmjafrx _Wicked Flesh_ (2020) p. 51. #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
“Slavery in motion was a type of bondage that targeted free & enslaved people alike and rendered them enslaved in foreign lands.” @scott_heerman, “Abolishing Slavery in Motion,” WMQ Apr 2020, 247. #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
“John Quincy Adams was predisposed to think of politics historically & to conceive of writing as part of his political practice.” DWaldstreicher on “John Quincy Adams as the 1st Revisionist” in @SethCotlar & RJEllis _Historian in Chief_ #VastEarlyAmerica in 1sentence #VastEA2020
“With British rule, slavery in New York gained a new stringency & free blacks too were affected by the new rulers’ desire to control slaves.” @ProfLMH _In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863_ p. 26. #VastEarlyAmerica in 1sentence. #VastEA2020
“As slaveholding receded from the northern states…college trustees and presidents forged new ties to Atlantic slavery.” C. S. Wilder in Harris, Campbell & Brophy, _Slavery & the University_, (2019), p. 36. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
“Both in and out of power, Jeffersonians…could sound like country oppositionists while at the same time acting like precocious, modern state-makers.” Leonard Sedosky in _Jeffersonians in Power_ (2019), p. 153. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
“Every day that the fugitive opened her eyes, [Ona Judge] knew one thing to be true: she would “rather suffer death” than return to slavery.” @ericaadunbar, _Never Caught_ (2017, p. 197). Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
“The built landscapes of American heritage are employed predominantly to visualize and promote knowledge about the accomplishments of notable whites.” @yeischolar in _Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies_ Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1sentence. #VastEA2020
“American environments, past & present, bear the markings of Native sovereignty, power, boundaries, & jurisdiction.” @cacayne on "Colonial French *Plans* of Kanesatake,” WMQ Apr2018. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
“Making maps is about memory and survival [&] helping people to comprehend that there are different ways of seeing the land and its history.” Lisa Brooks, “Awikhigawôgan ta Pildowi Ôjmowôgan: Mapping a New History,” WMQ Apr2018. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"Historians must look beyond the local and institutional role of family to see how it fundamentally shaped the thought and behavior of key actors." Natalie Inman, _Brothers and Friends: Kinship in Early America_, p. 14. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
A thread for 2020 - reading #VastEarlyAmerica in one sentence. Missed a few weeks in April and May but am starting to catch up! #VastEA2020
"Nearly everyone in 1787 conceded "the weakness of the Confederation." GS Wood (quoting Madison, _The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787_ (@OIEAHC Norton ppback, 1969). Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
“The American Revolution has always seemed to be an extraordinary kind of revolution, and no more so than to the Revolutionaries themselves.” GS Wood, _The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787_ (@OIEAHC, 1969), p. 3. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin." E. Morgan, _American Slavery, American Freedom_ (1975), p. 6.
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“The deeply intwined causes of slavery and dispossession were more alike than not.” @ClaudioSaunt, _Unworthy Republic_, p. 318. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
“…the line between “native” and “settler” blurs and bleeds, for African Americans as well as Native Americans.”
Tiya Miles, "Beyond a Boundary" _William and Mary Quarterly_ (July 2019), p. 421.
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“When the portrayal of Native Americans & African Americans as King George’s proxies merged w existing prejudices, a new political reality justified taking action against these enemies.” R. Parkinson p33 in @jbf1755 @JohannNeem Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence #VastEA2020
"Testimony in French colonial courts enabled enslaved individuals to present autobiographical snapshots that illuminate their experience of diaspora and slavery." Sophie White, _Voices of the Enslaved_ (2019), p 226. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica 1sentence. #VastEA2020
“The ready acceptance of Jefferson’s faulty math and self-serving narrative points to a problem at the heart of the historiography of black runaways during the American Revolution.” C. Pybus, WMQ (2005), 247. Reading #VastEarlyAmerica in 1 sentence. #VastEA2020
The #AmericanRevolution "had deep political causes, rooted both in…constitutional dimensions ...& in the ideological perceptions that inclined political actors…to view each other’s escalating actions w increasing suspicion.” Jack Rakove, WMQ (2011), 636. 1sentence. #VastEA2020
