Richard Clough Anderson, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Problem of Slavery in the Spanish American Patriotic Cause
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Slavery, Abolition, Independence, Diplomacy, United States, Colombia
Abstract
Richard Clough Anderson, a lawyer from Kentucky, became the first US minister plenipotentiary to Colombia. Incorporated as a State of the Union in 1792, Kentucky seems to have been the first State to publicly support Spanish America’s independence movements. By following the Kentucky lead through the life of Anderson, this paper historically situates the seeming political precociousness of that State in light of the contradictions of the early American republic: the practice of slavery, the ideology of freedom, the settlement of the Western frontier, the economic takeoff, and complex forms of political identification. Kentucky’s support for the Spanish American patriotic cause crystalized amid specific calculations on the limitations and economic potential of that commonwealth, a slave society partially truncated by its geographic location and social configuration.
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Hardin, Billi J. (1966). “Amos Kendall and the 1824 Relief Controversy”. En: The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol. 64, No. 3 (julio), pp. 196-208.
Head, David (2015). Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Priva-teering from the United States in the Early Republic. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Holberg, James J. (2001). “Anderson, Richard Clough” y “Anderson, Ri-chard Clough, Jr.”. En: The Encyclopedia of Louisville. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 36-37.
Horne, Gerald (2007). The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press.
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Mathias, Frank F. (1973). “The Relief and Court Struggle: Half-Way Hou-se to Populism”. En: The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol. 71, No. 2 (julio 1966), pp. 154-176.
Mejía, Sergio (2007). La revolución en letras: la historia de la Revolución de Colombia de José Manuel Restrepo (1781-1863). Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes.
Morgan, Edmund S. (1975). American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Ramage, James A. - Andrea S. Watkins (2011). Kentucky Rising: Democra-cy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
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Rubenstein, Asa Lee (1986). Richard Clough Anderson, Nathaniel Massie, and the Impact of Government on Western Land Speculation and Settlement, 1774-1830. Disertación doctoral, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign.
Stickles, Arndt (1940). Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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Pérez Morales, E. (2016). Richard Clough Anderson, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Problem of Slavery in the Spanish American Patriotic Cause. Co-Herencia, 13(25), 167–195. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.13.25.6
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