America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.

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Douglass - The Heroic Slave

Home - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair

Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu - The Creole Case

National Archives - The Amistad Case

Rediker - The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Sorrell and Berry - This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

US DOS - The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides.

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Guillet - The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Bonthius - The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Ducharme - Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution

Forcese - Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War

Kilbourn - The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

Kinchen - The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters

Read - The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After

Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography

Waxman - The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 2, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Aroostook War, a conflict between the United States, British New Brunswick, and the forces of nature.

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Aroostook War Songs:

Greenwood & Burns - Aroostook War Fighting Song

Wallace House - The Soldier Song (Aroostook War)

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Campbell and Campbell - The Aroostook War of 1839

Carroll - The Passionate Canadians: The Historical Debate about the Eastern Canadian-American Boundary

Maine Council - Aroostook War: HIstorical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men

Meander Maine - The Pork and Beans War

Paradis - John Baker and the Republic of Madawaska

Perry - “Maine and Her Soil or Blood!” Political Rhetoric and Spatial Identity During the Aroostook War in Maine