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The Leisler Papers, 1689-1691 - Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York Relating to the Administration of Lt. Governor Jacob (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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The Leisler Papers, 1689-1691 - Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York Relating to the Administration of Lt. Governor Jacob (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: New York Historical Manuscripts
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Jacob Leisler has been more an icon in historical writing than a
person. That the icon has served very different groups over the
centuries only shows that is has had little to do with the real
person. In his own century he was both the fanatical and villainous
despot and the martyred hero. In later times he was a forerunner of
American democracy, and a symbol of colonial rebelliousness. He has
also been pilloried in the Catholic press, not without
justification, although Catholics were not among those treated most
harshly during his administration. To Marxist theoreticians he was
a voice for the proletariat; to National Socialist propagandists he
was a German martyr. In short, much that has been written about
Leisler has had to do with the interests of various groups and
causes, many of them unrelated, or only distantly related, to
anything happening in Leisler's time. It is only today that
articles and books are beginning to appear in which his career is
examined dispassionately. Many of the untruths are so ingrained
that one must almost begin by saying what is not true before going
on to discuss what is true about Leisler. Suffice it to say that,
despite a long tradition of popular writing that he was base-born,
resentful of being outside the mainstream of colonial life and
commerce, and failing in his enterprises, he none of these. For
much of our enlightenment we are indebted to the research by David
William Voorhees, who has assembled copies of several thousand
documents from private institutions and government archives from
throughout Europe and North America.
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