Gannon's article is very good on the post-1803 movement. And in a more
recent issue of this fine Journal there is a fascinating article about
South Carolina's reopening of the importation slave trade after the
Louisiana Purchase. Prior to the Purchase S.C. had closed off the
importation of slaves, but they reopened it in order to import slaves at
CHarleston for shipment to Louisiana. Its a fascinating article, too.
Jon Kukla
Grundset, Eric wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has pointed out this article off-list, but in case they haven't I just remembered reading it and where it appears this morning.
>
> Kevin M. Gannon, "Escaping Mr. Jefferson's Plan of Destruction: New England Federalists and the Idea of a Northern Confederacy, 1803-1804," Journal of the Early Republic, v. 21, no. 3 (Fall 2001), 413-443.
>
> Eric G. Grundset
> Library Director
> DAR Library
> Washington, DC
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: New England secessionist movements
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>
> Paul is right of course that all of New England did NOT "want to leave the Union in 1812" - but there WERE secessionist movements led by prominent NEw Englanders in 1785-6, 1803-4, and of course leading up to the Hartford Convention of 1814 -- the first two are treated in my forthcoming book A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America (Knopf, pub date APril 10).
> Details are way too long for a list-serve (the 1785-6 movement is little known and takes the better part of a chapter) but after the book is out I'll be speaking at the Library of Virginia on May 14th and would be happy to elaborate in Q&A on that occasion.
> Jon Kukla
>
> paul finkelman wrote:
>
>>New England did not want to leave the Union in 1812, and did not; a few radical
>>federalists did, and it killed their party; one of the things they hated about
>>the constitution was the immense power it handed slavery and the South; by
>>counting slaves for electing presidents through the electoral college, the South
>>had been able to defeat Adams in 1800 (without the electoral votes from slaves,
>>Jefferson loses to Adams).
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