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William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Paperback, New edition)
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William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Paperback, New edition)
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In Travels, the celebrated 1791 account of the "Old Southwest,"
William Bartram recorded the natural world he saw around him but,
rather incredibly, omitted any reference to the epochal events of
the American Revolution. Edward J. Cashin places Bartram in the
context of his times and explains his conspicuous avoidance of
people, places, and events embroiled in revolutionary fervor.
Cashin suggests that while Bartram documented the natural world for
plant collector John Fothergill, he wrote Travels for an entirely
different audience. Convinced that Providence directed events for
the betterment of mankind and that the Constitutional Convention
would produce a political model for the rest of the world, Bartram
offered Travels as a means of shaping the new country. Cashin
illuminates the convictions that motivated Bartram-that if
Americans lived in communion with nature, heeded the moral law, and
treated the people of the interior with respect, then America would
be blessed with greatness.
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