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An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-11-21 David Wheat, Xabier Lamikiz, Roberto Zaugg, April Lee Hatfield, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, L.H. Roper, Alejandro García-Montón
The study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is becoming increasingly sophisticated, diverse, and international. Challenging prevailing stereotypes about the dominance of northern European business interests, García Montón’s study shows the persistent vigor of Genoa’s merchant community in this examination of the asiento system that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and continued into the mid-eighteenth
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From Scarlet to Gold Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lior Blum
The history of the English Guinea Company (1618–1657) – the circumstances of its establishment in particular – has not drawn much attention from scholars during the last seventy years. Thus, this article focuses on the process leading to the foundation and chartering of the Guinea Company in November 1618, as well as on the company’s role in the history of English activity in West Africa. Using a re-discovered
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The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Democratic Movement Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Philip Dingeldey
Against those who argue that the term democracy only became a broadly positive term in the 19th century, this article shows that it already had become a positive political term in the 1790s in the USA. With the Jeffersonian revolution, groups that used democracy positively triumphed over the anti-democratic Federalists. By transforming the connotation of the word democracy, however, Democratic Republicans
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No “Terror To Good Works, But To The Evil” Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-11-21 J. Michel Marcoux
Modern scholarship shows the enormity of Quaker religious sect misbehaviors starting about 1656 across colonial New England, including Quaker attacks on Plymouth Colony. After William Bradford’s 1657 death during that furor, Thomas Prence served as Plymouth governor for a third time. Prence made many valuable contributions to Plymouth and New England generally. However, unsurpassed among those achievements
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Tracing Women’s Lives Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Kit Candlin
This article explores the levels of choice and constraint that structured women’s lives during the Fedon Rebellion, a highly destructive conflict which broke out in the British-held Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1795. The article explores the continuities and contrasts between the lives of free and enslaved women in the colony during the eighteen-month struggle and the differences between those who
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Good and Bad Reputations Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Willem Frijhoff
Few leaders of Dutch colonial ventures in the Atlantic World have a reputation worse than that of Willem Kieft, Director of New Netherland from 1638 to his departure from the colony in 1647. Reassessing Kieft’s reputation requires placing him firmly in his Dutch and Amsterdam background. Tracing his family networks, two of Kieft’s Dutch colonial role models (one from the Dutch East Indies, the other
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French Governors and Dutch Merchants Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Martijn M. van den Bel
Where most scholarship on the origins of the sugar revolution has focused on the English islands, this article draws on detailed research in Dutch and French archives to show how Dutch merchants were crucial actors in promoting the sugar revolution in the Lesser Antilles. Despite the fact that both English and French islands experienced similar developments, the relationship between these islands is
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Scandinavian Archives, Transatlantic Historical Culture, and Carl Christian Rafn’s Attempt to Rewrite American History in the Antebellum U.S Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Derek Kane O’Leary
In the 1837 publication of Antiquitates Americanae by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries in Copenhagen, Carl Christian Rafn argued that indisputable evidence proved that Norse mariners had arrived in North America around the turn of the 11th century, making them—not Columbus and his crew—the first white people to colonize the hemisphere. For historical societies and intrigued readers in the
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Capitalism and its American Incarnation Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Tom Cutterham, Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Emma Hart, Carole Shammas
This forum includes three assessments of Emma Hart’s Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism and a response by the author. These analyses consider the book’s tracking of the formation of an American commercial system that, it argues, occurred in conjunction with the creation of the independent United States.
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Local Affairs or Imperial Scandals? Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Adeline Vasquez-Parra
What is the historical part of minorities and foreigners in the modern process of citizenship-building outside the French Kingdom? The study of legal claims and disputes shows that from the end of the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697) to the French Revolution (1789), many foreign inhabitants of the French Atlantic colonies shared a common understanding of their individual rights. The study of foreign subjects’
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The Rivers of America: Colonialism and the History of Naming Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Alice L Baumgarter
American rivers retain Native names twice as often as mountain ranges and four times as frequently as basins and summits. If renaming the landscape was, as historians argue, the handmaiden of colonialism, then this pattern has important implications for our understanding of American history. With case studies of four rivers, this article explores why rivers like the Housatonic and the Mississippi retained
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The Global Refuge: The Huguenot Diaspora in a Global and Imperial Perspective Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, David van der Linden, Eric Schnakenbourg, Ben Marsh, Bryan Banks, Owen Stanwood
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these
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Thomas Paine in French: Translations, Transfers and Circulations in the Age of Revolutions (1776–1793) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Carine Lounissi
This essay looks into the publishing history of three major works by Thomas Paine in French, Common Sense (1776), the Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782) and Rights of Man (1791–92). Although it is often taken for granted that Paine’s writings circulated to a great extent in the Atlantic world, the translation of these writings in French has not been studied in depth. These translations appeared at three
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Yoked by Violence: The Paxton Boys, Representation, and a “humble Petition” Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Scott Paul Gordon
A 1764 manuscript petition, a “humble Petition” from Lancaster County, differs substantially from the published Remonstrance that has been taken to represent the views of the Paxton Boys, who murdered 20 Native Americans in Lancaster County and attempted to destroy 140 more in the Philadelphia Barracks. The Remonstrance, which began with a Whiggish demand for increased legislative representation for
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Amelia Almorza Hidalgo, “No se hace pueblo sin ellas”. Mujeres españolas en el virreinato del Perú: Emigración y movilidad social (siglos XVI–XVII) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Sara Vicuña Guengerich
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Anne Dunan-Page. L’Expérience puritaine. Vies et récits de dissidents (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Agnès Delahaye
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Havard, Gilles, L’Amérique fantôme: les aventuriers francophones du Nouveau Monde Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Evan Haefeli
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Sophie Jorrand, Aventures dans les Caraïbes Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 David Chaunu
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Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Mariana L. R. Dantas
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Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvrière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Erica Johnson Edwards
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Guillaume Calafat, Une mer jalousée: Contribution à l’histoire de la souveraineté (Méditerranée, XVIIe siècle) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Martine van Ittersum
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Ana María Díaz Burgos, Tráfico de saberes. Agencia femenina, hechicería e inquisición en Cartagena de Indias (1610–1614) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Jorge Díaz Ceballos
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Jean Casimir, The Haitians: A Decolonial History Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Andrew Walker
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Adeline Vasquez-Parra, Aider les Acadiens ? Bienfaisance et déportation, 1755–1776 Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Seynabou Thiam-Pereira
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Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the eighteenth Century Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Michael J. Douma
Historians of American slavery are well-aware that there were slaves in New Netherland before the Dutch colony’s surrender to the English in 1664. It is seldom recognized, however, that the Dutch-speaking slave population in New York grew during the next century. This article establishes for the first time a reasonable estimate of the total number of Dutch-speaking slaves who lived in New York during
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Imagining a New Volk: German-American Nationalism in the Age of the Revolution Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Brandon Kinney
German colonists who participated in the American Revolution did so in a number of ways that were comparable to their Anglo-American neighbors. Yet German Patriots also had a unique method of expressing American nationalism: their vocabulary. While using the German language in the New World was often a means of preserving identity and cultural institutions, it also provided an avenue through which
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Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt: the Story of an Atlantic Slave War Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Matt D. Childs
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Emily C. K. Romeo, The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Caylin Carbonell
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Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Robert D. Taber
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Peter R. Henriques, First and Always: a New Portrait of George Washington Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Janine Yorimoto Boldt
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Joshua R. Greenberg, Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Jeffrey Sklansky
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After 400 Years: New Plymouth and Colonial American History Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Evan Haefeli
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James Moran, Madness on Trial: a Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 William J. Ryan
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A European Turn in Early American History?: A Discussion of Evan Haefeli’s Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497–1662 Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Tim Harris, Chris Beneke, Benjamin J. Kaplan, Wayne Te Brake, Evan Haefeli
From the nineteenth century onwards, Americans have naturalized their colonial origins into a consensual nationalist history, emphasizing America’s perceived role as a refuge for the persecuted, while smoothing out a myriad of complexities in the process. Evan Haefeli attempts to overturn the assumptions underpinning this narrative and is convinced that many important aspects of early America need
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“A Bad Race of Infected Blood” The Atlantic Profile of Gaspar Riveros Vasconcelos and the Question of Race in 1650 New Spain Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Matteo Lazzari
Based on manuscripts from the Mexican National Archive recording a 1650 Inquisition trial for astrology, this article will present a reconstruction of the story of Gaspar Riveros Vasconcelos, a “mulatto” born in Tangier, a descendant of a Portuguese father and Angolan mother. He travelled the Atlantic commercial routes – visiting Angola, Pernambuco, Cartagena de Indias, La Havana – and got involved
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Great Grievance: Benjamin Franklin and Anti-Convict Sentiment Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Jennie Jeppesen
Perhaps the best known argument that the early American colonies despised convict labour was the Rattlesnake newspaper article penned by Benjamin Franklin. And yet, was there actually a wide-spread anti-convict sentiment? Or was Franklin a lone voice railing against perceived British insults? Framed around the claims made by Franklin, this article is an investigation of primary evidence from the colonies
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Puritanism in Transatlantic Perspective: A Discussion of David D. Hall’s The Puritans: A Transatlantic History Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Abram C. Van Engen, Evan Haefeli, Andrew Pettegree, Fred van Lieburg, David D. Hall
David D. Hall’s book comprises a transatlantic history of the Puritan movement from its sixteenth-century emergence to its heyday under Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent political demise after 1660. Hall provides insights into the movement’s trajectory, including the various forms of Puritan belief and practice in England and Scotland and their transatlantic migration. In Hall’s sweeping view, Puritanism
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Whitney Martinko, Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Stephen G. Hague
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T. Cole Jones, Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Susan Brynne Long
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Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr., Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Irina Saladin
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John Gilbert McCurdy, Quarters: the Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Stephen Conway
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Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Frances Kolb Turnbell
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Joseph M. Adelman, Revolutionary Networks: the Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789 Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Lindsay O’Neill
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Sharon Block, Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 James Sidbury
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Carlton F.W. Larson, The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 T. Cole Jones
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Marisa J. Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Robin Mitchell
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Ann M. Little, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Catherine O’Donnell
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Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, A Most Splendid Company: the Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Andrés Reséndez
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Cities, States, and Citizens in the Atlantic World: Towards a New Narrative: A Discussion of Mark Peterson’s The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Emma Hart, Robert J. Allison, Paul P. Musselwhite, Daniel K. Richter, Mark Peterson
In his book Mark Peterson presents an innovative perspective on the development of Boston and its New England hinterland as an early modern city-state. His purpose was to tell the story of Boston in its own right, shedding US national history as the dominant interpretative framework. The four reviewers pick up various strands, focusing, among others, on the validity of the city-state concept, especially
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“Look’d Like Milk”: Colonialism and Infant Feeding in the English Atlantic World Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Carla Cevasco
While wet nursing interactions between enslaved women of African descent and colonial women have received extensive scholarly attention, much remains to be done in understanding colonial and Native women’s interactions around breastfeeding and infant feeding. This article close-reads two captivity narratives in which baby food features prominently: God’s Protecting Providence, Jonathan Dickinson’s
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Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, written by Cécile Vidal, (2019) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Celine Ugolini
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Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500–1850, written by Cameron B. Strang, (2018) Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Bryan C. Rindfleisch
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Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail, written by Matthew R. Bahar Journal of Early American History Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Christoph Strobel
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