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- Abstract:
- Between December 1823 and Washington’s birthday in February of 1824, visual and written accounts from the Mediterranean inspired many patriotic Americans to plan public events designed to raise financial support for the Greek War of Independence. Popular literature, including odes like the one in the featured oration, portrayed Ottoman Turks as Muslim enemies of liberty while casting the Greeks as Christian victims of enslavement. Americans further related their political identities to that of the ancient Greeks and saw themselves (and contemporary Greeks) as heirs to an ancient political tradition of liberty and self-government. This rhetoric drew on themes that Americans associated with their own revolution and roused their empathy to come to the Greeks’ aid.
Citation
"Address of the Committee of the Greek Fund of the City of New-York to their fellow-citizens throughout the United States"
(1823).
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:upbmzvpm/
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