Fugitive Empire

Locating Early American Imperialism

By: Andy Doolen

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In "Fugitive Empire," Andy Doolen investigates the relationships among race, nation, and empire in colonial and early national America, revealing how whiteness and American identity were conflated to stabilize racial hierarchy and to repulse challenges to national policies of slavery, war, and continental expansion.
"Fugitive Empire" begins not in 1776 but in 1741 with the New York Conspiracy trials. Linking them to the British conflict with the Spanish in the West Indies, Doolen describes how white colonists were led to suspect all foreigners, particularly slaves, as insurgents. He shows how this protonational story resonated later in the suppression of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793. In addition to examining the only extant record of the New York Conspiracy trials, Doolen catalogs the rampant fear of aliens in Charles Brockden Brown's novels; places James Fenimore Cooper's "The Pioneers" in the context of early efforts to relocate African-Americans to Liberia; and considers Pequot writer William Apess, whose writing on Native rights landed him in jail. Bridging the gap between the British Empire and the new United States, Doolen concludes that imperial authority lies at the heart of American republicanism, an unstable mixture of idealism, force, and pragmatism, wielded in the name of freedom even today.
Andy Doolen is assistant professor of American literature and American studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Politics & Government Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

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War for empire and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741	p. 1
Unreasonable discontent : the politics of Charles Brockden Brown and the Monthly magazine	p. 39
Imperial geographies and Arthur Mervyn	p. 75
Snug stored below : slavery and James Fenimore Cooper's white America	p. 111
William Apess and the nullification of empire	p. 145
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