September 16, 1824
Local Visit
WHAT HISTORY?
CLASS #1: Background: Who, why, Lafayette?
CLASS #2
View from the Audience. Persons of Color. Enslaved & Free.
CLASS #3:
View from the Audience. Establishment White Working Class.
CLASS #4: After Death a Universal Icon
Why
Lafayette Endures: Big Moves & Intimate Gestures. A Profound Commitment to Truth.
“All are created equal…”
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
TRUTH
“ ”
“…all means all…”
Lewis Hayden intimate GESTURES BIG moves
American & French Revolution Race, Gender, Faith Named Persons
American & French Revolution Race, Gender, Faith Named
Persons
LAFAYETTE LODGE NO. 22 MASONS, AMENIA
LAFAYETTE LODGE No. 18 IOOF,
American Revolution (1775-1782)
French Revolution (1789-1797)
1824 Visit
Diverse Appeal Generations. Race. Gender. Faith.
DCHS COLLECTIONS
JAMES ARMISTEAD
“James gave essential service… 1784 …intelligence from the enemy”
February 5, 1783: “Let us unite in purchasing a small estate…”
February 6, 1786: “I have purchased a plantation in Cayenne and am going to free my Negroes…”
Thomas Clarkson 1827
“Where are my friends the Oneida?”
Henry Cornelius 1825
LOUIS XVI 1789
1792 -1797
1 8 2 6 1 7 7 6 50 th July 4, 1826
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
1824
1824 1864
DCHS COLLECTIONS
September 16
SEPT. 16
SEPT. 19
Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie
ELITE
Henry Livingston to Lafayette September 16, 1824
“I heard repeatedly the story from my mother’s lips that the gallant Frenchman not only took [her and] each [young girl] by the hand, but even stooped to kiss them as they passed him.”
John Howard Brown, Rhinebeck
September 19, 1916
Janet Livingston Montgomery
Edward Livingston
Thomas Barton
Cora Livingston Barton
“Alexander Gilson: my faithful friend and Servant…” Cora Barton
OUTCAST
Henry Livingston
CLASS #1: Background: Who, why, Lafayette?
CLASS #2
View from the Audience. Persons of Color. Enslaved & Free.
CLASS #3:
View from the Audience. Establishment White Working Class.
CLASS #4: After Death a Universal Icon