التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Archibald Loudon and the Politics of Print and Indian-Hating in the Early Republic. |
المؤلفون: |
RIDNER, JUDITH |
المصدر: |
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal; Summer2021, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p528-567, 40p |
مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NATIVE American-White relations, HISTORY of violence, PRINTERS (Persons), PENNSYLVANIA state history, 1775-1865, PENNSYLVANIA state politics & government, 1775-1865, NEWSPAPERS, MASS media & politics |
People: |
BRACKENRIDGE, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816 |
مستخلص: |
Indian-hating, a critical building block of white nationalism during the early American republic, was built from the grassroots by printers who were also local citizens with their own personal and political axes to grind. The Pennsylvanian Archibald Loudon was one of these printers. His two-volume collection of frontier captivity, war, and atrocity narratives, titled A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives, of Outrages, Committed by the Indians, in Their Wars with the White People, epitomizes how printers collected and disseminated local stories of Indigenous violence--filtered through the lenses of their own partisan politics--to generate hatred for Indians on the eve of the War of 1812. This essay tells the story of Loudon and his Selection. It analyzes how Loudon's experiences as a colonial frontier refugee, Revolutionary War soldier, stalwart Democratic-Republican, and friend of the writer and politician Hugh Henry Brackenridge made him into an Indian-hater. It also assesses his two-volume Selection as a remarkable collection of local stories that framed the violent as well as the noble acts of local Native peoples and the harrowing tales of white martyrs and settlers who survived so as to influence national conversations about race and belonging, politics and war in the early republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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