Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The origins of this book go back to a remark once made by Jack P. Greene calling for attention to the ‘‘deep and abiding commitment’’ of the American Founders to inequality. I have always felt that the nature of this commitment needed to be examined more fully, and what follows is an attempt to do so. My debt to Jack P. Greene’s inspiring scholarship in American cultural history and to his generous spirit is deep and enduring. Very special thanks go to Dick Holway, my editor at the University of Virginia Press. His good faith as well as his curiosity and willingness to look beyond established historiographical trends have been an unfailing source of encouragement. My gratitude is also due to my project editor, Ruth Steinberg , whose kind assistance brought technical harmony to the manuscript, and to Susan Murray, who copyedited it and whose patience and sharp eye helped smoothen my relationship with grammar. I am indebted to many colleagues, friends, and students who have over the years o√ered generous advice on my project. For their insightful comments and suggestions I wish to thank Alan Tully, Peter S. Onuf, Jack R. Pole, Jack N. Rakove, Walter Nugent, Nelson D. Lankford, Natalie Zacek, Daniel Hulsebosch, Julie Winch, Je√ory A. Clymer, Tom Sosnowski, Sara van den Berg, Tony Hastert, Peter and Basia Sokolowski, Angie Dietz, Ted Listerman , and Scott McDermott. It is a special pleasure to thank the sta√ of the History Department at Saint Louis University, Kathy Bonsack and Chris Pudlowski, for their ever cheerful and e≈cient assistance. For their help when I was working on this project, I would also like to thank the librarians at the Huntington Library in San Marino, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Pius XII Memorial Library at Saint Louis University, the Olin Library at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Special x acknowledgments Collections and Rare Books of the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri, Columbia. I am obliged for the financial assistance I received during my research and writing of this study in the form of Mellon Foundation Research Grants through Saint Louis University, and a research fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society. A fragment of my book was presented as a paper at the 2001 Seventh Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Glasgow, Scotland, and subsequently published as ‘‘Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in EighteenthCentury British America,’’ in Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, eds., Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, pp. 293–318, 367–71(∫ 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press). The quote from Camillo Querno in chapter 4 is from Gale, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (∫ Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions). Parts of chapter 2 were published as ‘‘To Save Them from Themselves: Proposals to Enslave the British Poor, 1698–1755,’’ in Slavery and Abolition 22, no. 2 (2001): 29–50 (reprinted by permission of the publisher, Taylor and Francis Ltd., http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals). Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution This page intentionally left blank ...