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  1. Mar 2022
    1. emained entangled in the business of slavery. Despite his vehement response to Bass, 1775 was the year in which Quaque assumed temporary command at three English forts

      CONTRADICTION: views to bass (anti-slave) and yet assumes command of forts in same year (1775)

      That said, general trend throughout the Atlantic world -> EMERGING ideas about anti-slavery in Atlantic

      BUYS a slave himself in 1785

    2. sness of it and may we be diligent to put it in practice by encouraging the Heathen World to partake of the brightness of God's Glory and the precious Promises o

      EXPLICITLY DISLIKES SLAVEYR -> Stads in way of heathen conversions. Thinks Americans wanting freedom are hypocrites

    3. ptized a few Africans and Euro-Africans associated with the fort, his work never produced large-scale conversions to both his and the SPG's conster nation.

      Fails to attain widespread conversions, blames slave trade

      • Corresponds w/ abolitionist ministers abroad like Hopkins in Rhode Island
    4. noted that he had not yet achieved large numbers of conversions and reported, "the stir of religion and its everlasting recompense is not so much in vogue as the vicious practice of purchasing flesh and blood like oxens in market place

      Specific example of slaveyr getting in way of mass conversion

    5. ughout Quaque's life the SPG invested prestige, effort, and money in operating the Codrington plantation on the premise that profits from enslaved labor and the conversions of enslaved people could be attained simultaneously. In

      SPG AND SLAVERY: TIGHTLY KNIT

      SPG TRYING TO CONVERT SLAVES WHILE ATTAINING PROFIT FROM THEM -> CODRINGTON PLANTATION

      TURNS DOWN QUAKER ABOLITIONMENT OFFERS 1768

      QUAQUE'S PREDECESSOR WROTE "AFRICAan Trade for Negro Slavesy Shewn to be Consistent with the Principles ofHumanityy and with the Laws of Revealed Religion, w" - THOMAS Thompsan publishe dthis -> dude responsible for Quauque's role

      Obviously hard for Quaque to publically go against slavery -> private letters reveal otherwise

    6. promote the diplomatic and strategic conditions in tended to maximize the trade in enslaved peop

      Understaffed -> Chaplain but takes over command of forts and promotes conditions to maximize slave trade

      Also in Bureaucracy that allows gears of trade to turn -> Captain and writer in 89

      "More involved in trade than missionary should be" by 89 (SPG)

      OVERALL: Firmly entrenched/participates in trade of slaves despite Christian job and role

    7. que was an employee of the Company of Merchants, which intended all of Quaque's religious and educational efforts to serve the interests of slave traders in some measure

      ALSO -> QUAQUE IS EMPLOYEE OF SLAVE COMPANY, HIS JOB IS LITERALLY TO SERVICE INTERESTS OF SLAVERS EVEN THOUGH ITS A RELIGIOUS ROLE

    8. uaque's

      METHODISM AND SLAVRY: - By 1765, very few brits publically against it - Returns to Cape Coast -> in society of those who profit most from trade - HE OWNED PEOPLE AND SO DID HIS FAM - Second marriage to own slave yikes -> BUT IN KEEPING WITH REGIONAL AKAN NORMS

      Personally benefits from slavery and unfreedom: - 26"chappel servants" owned by Company of Merchants at Cape Coast - Also general "castle slaves" - Relative Cudjoe Caboceer wealthy trader -> so are most permenant residents of African decsent on Cape coast - THEREFORE -> any challenges to slavery would run up against family /elites of region like nobles

    9. ah Equiano is the best example of the way Methodism and Church of England membership overlapped in this period, and a new perspective on Quaque's education highlights the similarities between the two

      EQUIANO -> how Methodism overlapped w/ Anglicanism

      Baptized as Anglican 1759 -> invited to be a methodist in circle in 1770s Calvinistic Methodist services -> the culture "appealed" to him

      Also CONSIDERS HIMSELF ANGLICAN STILL (by 1779 at least) -> REQUESTS ORDINATION SAME YEAR

      In later years, moves away fro mChurch and deepens ties to Methodism

    10. 42 GLASSON Chapel in the 1770s and went to various churches to listen to sermons by both Anglican and dissenting clergymen. In 1770 he reported that he was "half a Method

      Several touring England to listent to new preachers, report they're "half a methodist" so IDEAS floating around

    11. these individuals, and in many sites around the Atlantic world, Methodism became one of the primary expressions of a new form of black Christianity.60 The first benefit of establishing the connection be tween Quaque, Moore, and the segment of the Church of England sympathetic to religious revival and Methodism is that it repositions Quaque's religious ex periences closer to those of other free African-born people living around the British Atlantic in the mid- and late eighteenth century

      Methodism POPULAR among black Atlanticists -> obviously more like trad religions even if Anglican like Quaque

    12. 's. Besides the strong possibility that Quaque was present for communications with the ghost, it is clear that Quaque and Cudjo were living with Moore in 1762 and therefore familiar with the religious scene that produced the varied responses to the ghost's k

      Quaque, etc present for the Cock Lane Affair, how did this methodist ideology influence them?

    13. embership in a Methodist society was in this period often an addition to, rather than a replacement for, participation in the rituals of the established churc

      Methodism exists OUTSIDE Church branches -> can be part of a society and an established Church

    14. Such views of Methodism, summed up by Horace Walpole's arch observation that in the Cock Lane ghost the "the Methodists were glad to have such a key to the credulity of the mob,"

      Many see this as Methodists just pandering to the masses for attention

    15. t for folk remedies, spiritual healing, a belief in witches, and other accommodations with popular religiosity distinguished Methodist sym pathizers from self-consciously orthodox, rationalist Anglicans

      Methodists ACCEPTING of the occult / pagan / folk rituals while Anglicans were not -> DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF GOD (Difference between Quaque and Equiano the BRANCH of Christianity on their views?

    16. been Nothing else, but a senister view of getting from Me if possible, the little Income I have from the African Committee into his own Custody,

      Afrcan leaders siphoning funds from itermediaries payroll into own bank accounts. Govt, in turn, wants the connections w/ elites to help further missions

    17. He was selected for education in England largely because he was a relative of Cudjoe Caboceer, a powerful figure at Cape Coast and an important African ally of the English.25

      WHY QUAQUE WAS CHOSEN

    18. him, Moore had already cooperated with the Com pany of Merchants Trading to Africa in training ot

      Moore a serial "creoleizer" - ex: Cape Cast governor and Fante leadership make deal -> get disciples to send to England for training as intermediaries?

    19. hostile to many aspects of African culture and lost his ability to speak his native languag

      Loses connections w/ African culture from London-> hated AFRICAN RELIGIONS and language Sent own children to be educated in England -> "secure tender minds from...the bad impressions of the country" -> lose mother's "vile jargon"

    20. Cudjo had been "put out of the Reach of Instruction by a Lunacy." After a period at St. Luke's Hospital, he died at Guy's Hospital in September 1774, w

      Incurable of nativeness?

    21. ng ones." The eventuality did not come to pass because Cape Coast's African elites cooperated in the scheme that ultimately led to Quaque's education

      That said, Quaque proffered by African elites -> experience as "creole" intermediary between Afr and Euros on coast -> initiatives sponsored by Euro companies and traders. Some enslaved, others offered like Quaque

    22. The Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, the organization that maintained Britain's African forts and facilitated British slave trading in the late eighteenth century, paid the other halves of their salaries for serving as chaplains to its employees

      slave companies PAYS for missionaries

    23. shed precedents in using travel and education to tie Atlantic populations more closely to Anglicanism and, often, to British military and comme

      PURPOSE of Anglicanism

    24. ue and his companions rested partly on the idea that "civilized" Africans might make good missionaries to their coun trymen, but they were not inspired by antipat

      Black missionaries used to approach blacks, NOT because of anti-slace notions

    25. 30 GLASSON the English slave traders who operated out of Cape Coast Castle. In 1754, Thomas Thompson (1708/9-73), the first missionary posted to Africa by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG, or the Society), sent Quaque and two other local boys to London for education. Neither of his compatriots survived to return to west Africa, but Quaque was educated for several years before being ordained and marrying an English woman, Catherine Blunt. In 1766 Quaque returned to Cape Coast

      GROWS TO THINK PAGANISM = SIN AND WAS RESCUED

  2. Feb 2022
  3. moodle.concordia.ca moodle.concordia.ca
    1. Nor did the parliamentary discussion evoke any flurry of correspondence or edi-torials in the newspapers. When Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) applied for theposition of missionary to Africa in 1779, his memorial mentioned nothing aboutthe abolition of the slave trade among his motives.

      GOD TIER

    1. , vividly profound in her darkness

      unnecessary -> Terry agrees: languages OBSCURES rather than evokes creatively (at times) -> basically muddling a description as opposed to painting a complex picture (but again, when it pulls through you really reach some solid heights. "Feel"French

    2. he gazed out of the window and for once there was nobody else than himself, he had rather be in the world

      This is a conflict you introduce in the last sentence. Where is it in the story? If anything he seems pretty assured. I'd like to see MORE of his actual struggle -> either with self doubt or his frustration -> more of a challeng. So far the conflict is just him briefly overcoming a wee bit o self doubt

    3. fingers would find a keyboard, typewriter or pen and paper thus entreating his mind to pr

      really LIKE THIS IDEA: EXPAND -> maybe he secretly really likes writing firing notices or letters or emails and this subtly reveals he's a good writer/has the ABILITY to do this just not the outlet

    4. ls he was perusing, the world would be completely abstracted, and immovable as he was, the most violent jolts would leave him placid as a bronze statue. The impactful forces of the weather, the movements and noises produced by the neighbors, or the sounds emitted by the outside environment through the walls or windows of his apartment would not impress or distract him from this most important occupation. Insofar as he was concerned, this activity was conducted with as only aim, the purpose of mere distraction. The practical aspect of this activity had eluded him entirely.

      Don't need this

    5. Hours would follow themselves while he would be sitting at his desk, enclosed behind a cubicle, either staring at his computer screen, focused in apathetic resignation on the assignment he was working on, or gazing through the windows of the office, in absent daydreaming.

      cut

    6. For a passionate person, creatively enlightened, illuminated by the magic glow of literature, desperately craving the novels he was consuming relentlessly during periods of leisure, this job of analysis and reporting was greatly depressing and even more so distressing

      Too on the nose, don't explain whole conflict

    7. hose fictional beings were open-minded, passionate, and sincere in the most authentic way he had ever had the pleasure of knowing.

      Unreliable narrator / main conflict suggested?

    8. s they needed to be employed in incessant attempts to scour or rummage desperately in search of a better profession the likes of which would empower him with a sense of fulfilment and appreciation, aspects that were inexistent at his current position.

      Again, Malek hitting HARD here

    9. solution to this conundrum that had become his daily burden

      FOR REAAAAL: you KNOW how to describe being stuck in a rut. This is such a good way of putting it

    10. ould stand bewildered during a minute of hazy confusion, due to the prolonged period of sitting at his desk and the pernicious glaring light of the screen, to proceed turning off his computer and gathering his personal belongings to head in the direction of the exi

      Like this, but don't explain why he has a minute of hazy confusion. Maybe "stared blankly and blurred" -> more impactful and implies unsettled attitude both physically AND mentally

    1. Ines

      Overall specific details / observations like in class -> observations painted instead of dialogue (WHAT doesn't he like about the town / likes about river) Terry's suggestion of taking back to Peru like in travel assignment

    2. he autumnal rug was sticking to his boots, and the humidity made him shiver all the way down to his bones, but he was determined to get to the river and read to the late hour

      nice

    3. his dump town’s woods. Most of the adults in the small town liked to drink lots of beer, or strong alcohol, and most of the boys his age were stoners, which bored Javier who liked to read and paint

      Get rid of bored line

    4. and the lone wolf was released into the woods. Javier felt even more out of place than ever, moving from Toronto to a small town, except when he spent his weekends exploring the woods, and coming to the river, his only friend

      All happening so fast, I feel like this could be the start of the story or what the narrative bio focuses on. Instead of narrating all the above background, maybe just recount how his mom landed a job here and suggets / allude to his dad's absence (which in turn SUGGESTS) why he prefers the company of the woods

    5. He thought this was worth Javi hating him for the rest of his life, and Javier did hate his father for leavin

      All background...maybe shift to in person reflection?

    1. “Yeah... I’m glad I was here.” I just wish I had been there for him too.

      ELECTRIC final couple pages. Love the angst in the midst, but if it were conveyed a lil less choppy it would allow that momentum to really build. Don't narrate entire family history, paint individual scenes of dad like the Christmas. Cite specific examples instead of "when I was 8 he left and blah blah" -> be like a pop punk song

    2. emember his skin... patches of blue and purple all over his body... I remember his nose... and the cone of white froth that bubbled out of his nostrils... I remember his eyes... they were closed shut. Exactly like the last time I saw hi

      fuck

    3. his was normally where I would swim up to the surface to get some air, but something told me not to. I wanted to stay underwater... I needed to stay underwater. I found it strangely comforting, not being able to breathe. I knew exactly what would happen to me if I drowned, and I closed my eyes to imagine it. Water would flood my lungs... my airway would close... I wouldn’t be able to make a sound. A few minutes without oxygen, and I’d lose consciousness. Breathing would stop... my heart would slow... I’d start to sink... And then I’d di

      This is interesting! Why does the narrator feel this way? establish subtle basis for this earlier on?

    4. and I slipped. I missed the next couple of stairs and made a loud splash as I fell into the water. Hanging on to the railings was the only thing keeping my head above the surfa

      This could be an even more terrifying sensory experience

    5. let my back face the pool while I placed my feet on the first step. The water was cold. It only covered my ankles but I was inches away from changing my mind... When I looke

      good!

    6. nd I also really missed being in the water... so I gave in

      Initial conflict resolved too quickly? Introduce elements of peer pressure or sensory love of water to cement contradiction?

    7. Actually, no. Maybe if they asked a few months ago. But not now... I don’t want be a lifeguard ever again. Speaking of lifeguards, I couldn’t see one anywher

      key, but delivered awkwardly?

    8. wouldn’t have minded a summer fling, but my constant family drama made me too emotionally unavailable to sustain even a four-month relationship.

      Too on the nose?

    1. xist theory emphasized collective con sciousness and struggle based on one's position in a social system; Lavrov stressed the role of a relatively privileged critically-thinking revolutionary van guard that had the duty to carry scientific ideas to the people. In

      KEY: LENIN/LAVROVS TAKE IS OPPOSED TO MARX IN A KEY WAY:

      • Marx emphasizes collective solidarity -> all people in all social systems playing their part in class struggle.

      • Lenin/Lavrov argue specific role of Intelligentsia/elite is to guide the people through scientific ideals and enlighten them

    1. notes, Alexander II “escaped death seven times, and many regarded the news of an additional attempt with some indifference, assuming he would escape once more.”7 The events of 1 March 1881, when the People's Will was finally successful, showed just how misplaced that assumption, and the complacency it revealed, was

      thesis

    1. era remained at the table mixing chemi-cals and cutting up paraffin cans until 2:00 am, when she, too, retired for the evening.12

      TECH PROWESS OF VERA / WOMEN'S EDUCATION

    2. But in 1880 the loss of innocent lives did not dissuade the revolutionaries.Instead the People’s Will basked in the glow of unprecedented publicity.

      JUST LIKE PIRA

    3. Vera to obtain her com-rade the position by using her looks and charms to appeal to local authori-ties to give this job to her allegedly destitute acquaintance.

      GENDER

    4. an effort to preserve solidarity within Land and Freedom, for the time being, the aspiring terrorists were satisfied when the propagandists conceded that their violently inclined counterparts could “continue the work of Solovev” with some measure of independence.25

      PERMISSION IMPLICIT FROM L/F

    1. miserable failure because the “bohemian” lifestyle of the Chaikovtsy drew so much attention that the police took notice. Subsequently, they set up their “headquarters apartment” in a working-class Petersburg neighborhood.

      LIKE KARAKOZOV AND FASHION. EVOLUTION FROM CONSPICUOUS HIPSTERS TO ACTUAL DISGUISES

    1. espite populism’s ideological emphasis on the peasant and the countryside, the physical and social environment in which the movement played out was not rural but urban.

      THESIS 2

    2. not only under the influence of ideological and psychological motivations but also in spite of the influence of ideological and psychological motivations.

      THESIS

    3. “Land and Freedom” split and disbanded in the summer of 1879, mainly over the question of whether or not to attempt regicide.

      PATTERN -> rev groups splitting (Decs, Chrnyshevsky?)

    1. men made masterly use of the material culture of the other, manipulating goods associated with the Indian fashion to extend and preserve their influence on the Mohawk frontier

      MANIPULATED CURRENTS OF MATERIAL CULTURE -CONTRAST OF COLONIAL BOTS ON GROUND AND TE MORE URBAN/POLITICAL/ROYAL SPHERE

  4. Jan 2022
    1. Ingredients

      Calories 914 % Daily Value* Total Fat 38.7g 50% Saturated Fat 13.4g 67% Cholesterol 175mg 58% Sodium 1688mg 73% Total Carbohydrate 71.5g 26% Dietary Fiber 2.8g 10% Total Sugars 4.1g<br> Protein 66.1g

      (with 1.5 lbs cooked chicken and 1 cup corn / 2 tomatoes)

    1. A fe w year s late r anothe r print , ’ T h e H a p p y N e g r o ’ , r o m a n -ticized Afric a an d m o t h e r h o o d . A blac k m a n sing s tha t th e ’ w h i t e m a n ’ s j o y s ar e n o t lik e m i n e ’ , fo r a l t h o u g h ’ m e i s p o o r . . . m e is g a y ’

      Equiano's description of childhood

    1. Assignment 1:

      CATEGORIZED AS A READER -> NOT "JUST THE BOOK" -Wade

      • includes essays, scholarship
      • Identify that you have BOTH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY (can emphasize demarcation unclear -> but specifically say primary/secondary when analyzing introduction and such)

      Goal: better prepped to tackle source as a whole read through.

    1. "Maybe it doesn't want to die

      Awesome. Capturing an experience while having some kind of focus, maybe not a "theme" but definitely the thing that sparked them wanting to write it. The kernal at the heart of the experience?

    2. The man in a leather apron was just about to cut the chicken's throat. The man in the apron took a knife

      transition awkward. Who is this guy? Such a pivital scene but grammar and such ruin it

    1. A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back. For a brief moment I hesitated—I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess;

      Great sudden action

  5. moodle.concordia.ca moodle.concordia.ca
    1. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi

      Pretty on the nose, but heartwarming. Almost a fable/allegory, but too much of an explicit association?

    2. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.

      Damn. love this, theme? ravages great word

    1. ur proposal is consistent with the historical clinical descriptions, estimated death rates, importation and distribution of its reservoir host, inoculation of the agent in multiple suitable nidalities, spread to other mammalian reservoirs, hyperendemicity, ecologic factors favoring repeated exposure and transmission, and known high-risk activities of the indigenous population.

      BASICALLY -> hypothesis based on CONSISTANCY with historical descriptions of symptoms and the facts on the ground for risk

    2. entire families to enter sweat lodges followed by immediate immersion in cooling streams and ponds; sweat lodges were considered vivifiers and cure-alls for illnesses, a practice that may have reexposed the already ill to contaminated water.

      IND HEALING PRACTICES WORSEN EPIDEMIC

    3. Attendance of the ill and burial of the dead (including those who died from Weil syndrome) would have attracted others who shared local food, water, and camp grounds. I

      IMPORTANT -> WHY RISK

    4. reemerging infection with identifiable risk factors, including immersion in fresh water, exposure to contaminated soil, and antecedent heavy rains

      Risk factors

    5. ellow fever is not a plausible explanation given the routes of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the time.

      Counter to Yellow Fever hypothesis -> slave trade contact minimal in region at time

    6. e, yet he cited Gookin from 1674: “I have discoursed with old Indians, who were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow, describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards.” T

      Descriptions of symptoms

    7. he black rat and mice were universal companions on ships and must have established themselves early on the coastal mainland, seeking harborage in and around Native American households.

      Fro mships / coast of Eng -> mention on logs

    8. ng the coast”

      Archaeological (bio) evidence (tree rings) to support primary source evidence of accounts of men dying out

      Flaw: no Ind sources, so can never know for sure

    9. ustoms that may have been instrumental to the near annihilation of Native Americans, which facilitated successful colonization of the Massachusetts Bay area.

      Ind customs partly to blame for accessing this water ?

    10. leptospirosis complicated by Weil syndrome

      Ind died en masse before large settlements in NE (Plymouth) -> usually said to be smallpox. Here Leptoirosis and Weil. From rodents from Euro ships contaminating water

    1. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a gore blood, most fearful to behold.

      Ind conditions worsening because of treatment? Mats they lie on?

    2. F · I d · · d ch •1 1 a1 e · or It P e ase God to v1 s1t these Indians with a orea t s ickness an su mortality that of a thous and

      More God interveneing (after Dutch show up that is, don't link the dots)

    3. G ods hand hath so pur-sued them, as for 300 miles space, the greatest parte of them are swept awaye by the small poxe

      Think God is clearing land for them -> justification by divine right "cleared" / empty lands

    4. vember 3: came now home, havinge lost themselves & endured muche miserye. they en.formed us, that the small poxe was gone as farr as any Indian plantation was knowne to the we st & muche people dead of it. by reason wherof they could have no trade.

      Socioeconomic consequences -> trade routes / partners disrupted by plague

    5. cured by suche meanes as they had rom us. Were kept by the English

      Children had better immunity?

      Sharing of cures, evidence that settlers did care / want ind alive. -> nah most died soon after

      ALSO -> IND HAVE ENGLISH NAMES BY THIS POINT -> promise to live with Eng if recovered. (so help conditional?) -> AND SERVE GOD -> baptism as cure remember

      Also genocide by stealing children?

    6. f great store of raine, and some cold northerly windes bloweinge with all, in a moment, and when noe man durst so much as hope for so happy a tume, thes mightie armies of ravenous ratts are clean taken awaye,

      Cleared away by nature in the end, shows even invasive species not impervious to new world tricks?

      Instead, wild cats march on having been fed -> so entire food chains replaced and have massive implications.

      LIKENS WILD CATS TO RETURNING TO WILDERNESS LIKE "WILD MEN" -> think wilderness is corrupting influence -> calls wild men thankless "first tameness" -> like state of nature/uncivilized?Might not be correct reading after all

    7. first brought in by the runne away frigate from the West Indies,

      Rats brought in

      Thrive in alien conditions "more apt to nourish them, shelter"

      Governors don't do anything

      "Utterly devour everything" -> like native grasses sucumbing to livestock. Were unaccustomed / adapted to pastoral animals and died out quickly because couldn't recover

      Also try to kill rats with poison -> poisons much of island Burning to get rid of them (learned from ind? waste wood (timber)

      EVIDENCE LIKE THE BLAST FUNGUS -> EUROPEAN / OLD WORLD RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE REPLACE THOSE IN THE NEW WORLD. colonists carving out own universe, ignoring old.

      Massive reach -> discover fish three leagues out to sea with rats in bellies.

    1. ut him in the company of other more conservative Russian noblemen who may at one time have themselves shared the conspirators’ ideas but quickly realized how mistaken they were to have attempted to promote them by recourse to violence. This was in any case certainly the position of the majority of the Russian nobility.

      So in end, many "liberal" or liberally slanted/curious nobles were shocked by Dec 14 and thus shifted into conservatism

    2. cording to Turgenev, the members of the first ‘German-style’ secret societies intended merely to promote the government's own reformist indications,

      Key point: not revolt out right -> acting on Alexs' baiting and generally trying to work out constitutional/serfdom issues

    3. hat is the sudden kind that occurred in France; he wrote, explaining that he understood revolution in Russia to mean: ‘progressive changes for the good of all, which should take place, ‘slowly, step by step, under the government’s direction, with the citizenry doing only what they could for it

      Gradualist "revolution"

    4. ‘infectious disease; or ‘a French sickness, which Russian officers brought back with them from the West:

      Revolutionary fervor as infectious disease from the west

    5. Decembrists without Dec

      Definitely clear that not everyone on square was fully on board with open revolt or even aware of leaders' intentions

      Memoir of Kamenskaia -> flee scene and joined by Finnish soldiers in house

    6. civil

      Energy should be put to good use. Organizing lives around what they want to do and what will help country/people instead of useless regimented military lives

    7. fulfil my duty solely out of love for the fatherland.

      Overall, pursuit of idividual self actualization out of love for country. Opposed to Alex, very religious ?

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    1. prisons and corners of London are full of decayed marchantes overthrowen by losse at sea, by usuerers,96 suerti-shippe and by sondry other suche meanes, and dare or cannott for their debtes shewe their faces, and in truthe many excellent giftes be in many of these men, and their goodd giftes are not ymployed to any manner of use, nor are not like of themselves to procure libertie to employe them-selves.

      using criminals locked away by debtors

    2. to kepe men occupied from worse cogitations, and to raise their myndes to courage and highe enterprizes and to make them lesse careles for the better shonnynge88

      Educating men on evils of Spanish conquest

    3. hat there be appointed one or twoo preachers for the voyadge that God may be honoured, the people instructed, mutinies the better avoided, and obedience the better used, that the voyadge may have the better successe

      Forgotten lol

    4. r Majestie and her sub-jectes may bothe enjoye the tr~asure of the mynes of golde and silver, and the whole trade and all the gaine of the trade of marchandize that nowe passeth thither by the Spaniarde

      Cause rebellion in spanish colonies so can get access to their trade

    5. ll seate upon that firme of America, and shalbe reported throughoute all that tracte to use the naturall people there with all humanitie, curtesie, and freedome

      Treat natives well, spanish bad

    6. England plante sincere relligion, and provide a safe and a sure place to receave people from all partes of the worlde that are forced to flee for the truthe of gods worde.

      religious justification

    7. thoute sworde drawen, wee shall cutt the combe26 of the frenche, of the spanishe, of the portingale, and of enemies, and of doubtful! frendes to the abatinge of their wealthe and force, and to the greater savinge of the wealthe of the Realme

      Industry and agricultural wealth will embaress other empires w/o drawing swords

    8. by husbandrie and by thousandes of thinges there to be don, infinite nombers of the english nation may be sett on worke to the unburdenynge of the Realme with many that nowe lyve chardgeable to the state at home

      Again, agriculture in empty fields

    9. Norumbega forren princes cus-tomes are avoided, and the forren commodities cheapely purchased, they become cheape to the subjectes of England to the comm

      Trade war w/ Spain

    10. It commeth nowe so to passe that by the greate endevo' of the increase of the trade of wolles in Spaine and in the west Indies nowe daily more and more multiplienge, That the wolles of England and the clothe made of the same, will become base,

      Competition w/ Spain who have better new world wools

    11. . That the Spaniardes have executed most outragious and more then Turkishe8 cruelties in all the west Indies,

      We're traders not conquerers (unlike Spain)

    12. nothinge so large as ys generally ymagined and surmised, neither those partes which he holdeth be of any such forces as ys falsly geven oute by the popishe6

      Reference to illegitimacy of papal bull (Pope didn't have right, also not just right of discovery, needed right of dominion/agriculture)

    13. Silver that the Spanish brought back from their explorations. English promoters often noted that the Spanish had profited handsomely from their overseas ventures, and they argued that these profits strengthened the forces of the Catholic Church.

      Catholicism as enemy

    1. love constitutional institutions and believe that any reasonable individual would too. But can they be introduced indiscriminately to all peoples? They are, after all, surely not all equally ready to adopt them.

      Referring to nobility here or people?

    2. ot yet devised any practical way of reducing the nobility’s powers over their ‘actual slaves, the enserfed peasantry,

      Also critical of uneducated nobility (and unpatriotic around Russian spirit) and inability of reform to get rid of serfdom

    3. England’s long and tortuous path towards the same goal,

      Overall: Nobility looking to western exmples to justify or go againat reform (France and revolution, long English process

    4. by bringing Alexander popularity unmatched either before or after it, the victory of 1812 provided the Russian ruling elite with just the impetus required to set Russia on a new course.

      thesis

    Annotators

    1. allowing landowners to demand that the government purchase serfs and land atprices specified for each province, through the issuing of assignats or bonds

      Arakcheev and buy outs

    2. like Storch, Mordvinov believed that serfdom was inefficient,costly, and destructive of Russian prosperity. In his scheme for self-redemption Mordvinovtried to link emancipation, which he considered natural and inevitable, to capital formation,which he believed was essential. Since serfdom was economically undesirable forlandowners, selling freedom to peasants industrious enough to amass a steep redemptionprice (and thus, presumably, to support themselves in freedom) was an elegant solutionthat would put capital in landowners’ hands and require them to continue “supporting”the weaker, naturally dependent, serfs. By these means, “the number of free people inRussia would gradually increase.”5

      Mental gymnastics to why extortionate self redemption was good, actually. Industrious peasants were hard workers and would be able to buy themselves out and then support themselves upon freedom (removing dependence), they would also generate capital for the landowners buy buying themselves. Weaker peasants would remain dependent on landowners, enshrining their right to support from the land. -> overall more free people in Russia

    3. Even liberal Russians wereaffected by their country’s hard-won victory over the regime that Revolution had spawned.To man Nature had granted freedom of action, mind, and will, but people who had livedfor ages without civil liberties were not likely to employ them usefully without educationin citizenship. Such people might safely pass from dependence to independence only iftheir emancipation were gradually established by law.

      Why they didn't want sudden reforms (fear of revolution/people not using freedom wisely)