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Looking now at the second article that Kevin sent me, which is a
fascinating study of the Democratic Review, a magazine that supported
slavery:
In a country where in 1840 some 78% of all white males voted in the
election – a statistic utterly unthinkable in Europe – Democratic
Review’s embrace of political radicalism led it to champion the radical
Loco-Focos wing of the Democratic Party with its populism, embrace of
the annexation of both Texas and the Oregon Territories, opposition to
any federal bank, the rejection of capital punishment, and active
support (both covert and overt) for European revolutionaries. At the
same time, Democratic Review embraced the expansion of slavery and
published pseudo-ethnographical racist articles such as “Transactions of
the American Ethnological Society” and “Origins and Characteristics of
the American Aborigines.”
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He described the Democratic Review as an "obscure" magazine. I only wish
I had been able to discuss my reading of the magazine under the
editorial direction of poet William Cullen Bryant, who was an early
supporter of the abolition of slavery. My interest in the magazine was
focused on Bryant's attitude toward American Indians, which was
contradictory as I pointed out here:
https://louisproyect.org/2019/05/08/thomas-cole-william-cullen-bryant-and-the-american-indian/
Most people, including professors, by the time they reach 70 lose their
intellectual drive. Kevin was burning bright up until a couple of weeks
before he died. My blog is diminished by his passing. His comments were
in a class by themselves.
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