Journal of the Early Republic Volume 34 Issue 3

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The Thucydidean Moment: History, Science, and the Yellow-Fever Controversy, 1793â1805

Apel, Thomas.

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated the port cities of the eastern United States. As the most pressing natural philosophical issue of the early national period, the search for the cause of the disease generated a heated debate that pitted âcontagionists,â who thought the it was...

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The Thucydidean Moment: History, Science, and the Yellow-Fever Controversy, 1793–1805

Apel, Thomas.

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

Abstract: From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated the port cities of the eastern United States. As the most pressing natural philosophical issue of the early national period, the search for the cause of the disease generated a heated debate that pitted “contagionists,” who thought the it was...

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The Protracted Meeting Myth: Awakenings, Revivals, and New York State Baptists, 1789–1850

Johnson, Curtis D., --

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

Abstract: In the 1830s and 1840s, Charles Finney and other New Measures enthusiasts promoted protracted meetings as a superior form of evangelization compared to earlier forms of evangelism. However, this essay argues that Finney and his allies were wrong and that protracted meetings were not...

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The Protracted Meeting Myth: Awakenings, Revivals, and New York State Baptists, 1789â1850

Johnson, Curtis D., --

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

In the 1830s and 1840s, Charles Finney and other New Measures enthusiasts promoted protracted meetings as a superior form of evangelization compared to earlier forms of evangelism. However, this essay argues that Finney and his allies were wrong and that protracted meetings were not more...

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Freedom’s First Con: African Americans and Changing Notes in Antebellum New York City

White, Shane.

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

Abstract: This article is about how African Americans in New York City in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s negotiated with whites that intensely human moment at the center of all monetary exchanges. The piece is based on decades of reading court cases and newspapers and in it I detail the mostly...

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Freedomâs First Con: African Americans and Changing Notes in Antebellum New York City

White, Shane.

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

This article is about how African Americans in New York City in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s negotiated with whites that intensely human moment at the center of all monetary exchanges. The piece is based on decades of reading court cases and newspapers and in it I detail the mostly previously...

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âThe Whole North Is Not Abolitionizedâ: Slaveryâs Slow Death in New Jersey, 1830â1860

Gigantino, James J., -- II, --

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

This article explores how white and black New Jerseyans understood slavery and abolition in their state in the 1830s and 1840s. It examines how the emergence of an active abolition society, fervor over the presence of fugitive slaves, and the increasingly degraded relationship between the North...

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“The Whole North Is Not Abolitionized”: Slavery’s Slow Death in New Jersey, 1830–1860

Gigantino, James J., -- II, --

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

Abstract: This article explores how white and black New Jerseyans understood slavery and abolition in their state in the 1830s and 1840s. It examines how the emergence of an active abolition society, fervor over the presence of fugitive slaves, and the increasingly degraded relationship between...

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What Makes the History of Capitalism Newsworthy?

Rockman, Seth

2014 Journal of the Early Republic

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What Makes the History of Capitalism Newsworthy?

2014 Journal of the Early Republic