Why Lafayette’s
Approach
To
Liberty & Equality Thrives in a Diverse World
CLASS #1: Background: Who, why, Lafayette?
CLASS #2
Lafayette as Litmus Test: How the Audience of Africans & Those of African Heritage (Enslaved & Free)
Experienced the Promise of Equality in September of 1824.
CLASS #3: Indigenous people. White Working Class.
CLASS #4: After Death a Universal Icon
“All are created equal…”
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
“ ” Truth All means all
GEORGE III LOUIS XVI Big Moves
Intimate Gestures
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
WELL-SOURCED “TIDY” NARRATIVE
SIGHTINGS & EVIDENCE ACROSS CENTURIES
UNDERSTAND IMPACT OF NON-NATIVE NARRATIVES
RELATIONSHIP WITH LAFAYETTE
Polly Cooper
Oneida
“Where are my friends the Oneida?”
Henry Cornelius 1825
Henry Miner
Dutchess County Peace Convention Wiley’s Grove, town of Clinton
“Turn Indians into citizens and given them the right to the ballot…”
“The honors paid yesterday at West Point to George Custer, the unprovoked murderer of the [Lakota] and the friendly Cheyenne was a national disgrace…”
Albany Germantown
Dutch English
German Palatines
Enslaved Africans
Ulster County
New York City
Mohican Schaghticoke
New England Quakers
Quakers
EVERYWHERE NOWHERE
WHOSE LENS?
Robert Walter Weir
Robert Walter Weir
Robert Walter Weir
STILL HERE
The dangers of firsting and lasting
CROW Chief
MANESSAH Prince Quack
APPROPRIATION
WORKING CLASS
BY ASSOCIATION
THE COMPANY HE KEPT
“…an old revolutionary soldier…”
“…bearing the marks of poverty and hardship…”
“…his countenance lighted up, and was evidently inspired with a new glow of life…”
CLASS #1: Background: Who, why, Lafayette?
CLASS #2
View from the Audience. Persons of Color. Enslaved & Free.
CLASS #3:
View from the Audience. Indigenous Peoples (Broad). Establishment. White Working Class.
CLASS #4: After Death & 20th Century a Universal Icon