Jacob Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bentley University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
One Day Our Warmest Friend; the Next Our Bitterest Enemy”
This article explores the often contentious relationship between early American Jewish writer Mordecai Manuel Noah and the African American community in 1820s New York City. I argue that recent critical discussions of Noah’s contributions to Jewish American literature have neglected to confront the author’s racist attacks against the city’s free black population. However, rather than asking the obvious and perhaps unanswerable question of whether…
Reading American Secularism in the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli
Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, which declares that “the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” has long been a fixture of debates over the separation of church and state. However, as I demonstrate, the common interpretation of Article 11 as a definitive statement on the country’s secular non-Christian identity, far from obvious at the time of its first publication in the 179…
Ararat Revisited
Razed to the Knees
This article examines James McCune Smith’s series of sketches “The Heads of Colored People” (1852-54), printed in Frederick Douglass’ Paper, and its dialogic relationship with Frederick Douglass’s novel The Heroic Slave (1853). I argue that, through representations of disabled working-class black bodies and the recurring trope of the shipwreck, Smith rejects Douglass’s privileging of the transatlantic heroic body in favor of an anti-heroism that …
Barbary(an) Invasions
Barbary(an) InvasionsThe North African Figure in Republican Print Culture Jacob Crane (bio) WE, the subjects of the United States of America, having the misfortune to be taken by the Algerines and brought into this port, and made slaves of, being stripped of every one of our clothes, and left in a state of slavery and misery, the severities of which are beyond your imagination, [we hope] you will take our grievances into consideration. ... Americ…
The British White Paper on Local Government
national government in Britain there has been vigorous debate about issues of postwar reconstruction, and, though compromises have been adopted as wartime expedients, these issues will doubtless influence forthcoming elections. The solutions proposed in the White Paper caused some dismay in Liberal and Labour ranks and emphasized a division among conservative forces in England. Although the chief problem dealt with in the White Paper is the adjus…
No prominent works on this page.
The British White Paper on Local Government
national government in Britain there has been vigorous debate about issues of postwar reconstruction, and, though compromises have been adopted as wartime expedients, these issues will doubtless influence forthcoming elections. The solutions proposed in the White Paper caused some dismay in Liberal and Labour ranks and emphasized a division among conservative forces in England. Although the chief problem dealt with in the White Paper is the adjus…
Barbary(an) Invasions
Barbary(an) InvasionsThe North African Figure in Republican Print Culture Jacob Crane (bio) WE, the subjects of the United States of America, having the misfortune to be taken by the Algerines and brought into this port, and made slaves of, being stripped of every one of our clothes, and left in a state of slavery and misery, the severities of which are beyond your imagination, [we hope] you will take our grievances into consideration. ... Americ…
Razed to the Knees
This article examines James McCune Smith’s series of sketches “The Heads of Colored People” (1852-54), printed in Frederick Douglass’ Paper, and its dialogic relationship with Frederick Douglass’s novel The Heroic Slave (1853). I argue that, through representations of disabled working-class black bodies and the recurring trope of the shipwreck, Smith rejects Douglass’s privileging of the transatlantic heroic body in favor of an anti-heroism that …
Ararat Revisited
One Day Our Warmest Friend; the Next Our Bitterest Enemy”
This article explores the often contentious relationship between early American Jewish writer Mordecai Manuel Noah and the African American community in 1820s New York City. I argue that recent critical discussions of Noah’s contributions to Jewish American literature have neglected to confront the author’s racist attacks against the city’s free black population. However, rather than asking the obvious and perhaps unanswerable question of whether…
Reading American Secularism in the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli
Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, which declares that “the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” has long been a fixture of debates over the separation of church and state. However, as I demonstrate, the common interpretation of Article 11 as a definitive statement on the country’s secular non-Christian identity, far from obvious at the time of its first publication in the 179…
History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works)