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The Comet and the Steamboat: How History Came to Scapegoat the Working Class of Early Shawneetown, Illinois

The Comet and the Steamboat: How History Came to Scapegoat the Working Class of Early Shawneetown, Illinois

Tolley, S. M.

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN13: 9798581603123
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On November 6, 1812, the Shawneetown militia was responsible for the looting and burning of French Peoria - a fact that (like the War of 1812 itself) receives no mention in the earliest surviving official history of Gallatin County. Rather, Goodspeed's History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois (1887) chooses to depict the entire citizenry of Shawneetown of the same era as Godless, superstitious fools, too stupid to recognize the difference between a comet and a steamboat. Why? Better yet, how did this depiction of early Shawneetown become at all preferable to the truth, and what does it tell us about the evolution of social dynamics in the oldest American community in Illinois?

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