1
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Oct. 24, 1823, at
www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers
. On the United States's long dalliance with Cuba, see Louis A. Pérez,
Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003), 39â54 and passim.
2
On early British forays into the backcountry, see Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall,
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America
(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 92â97 and chap. 5.
3
Born at Shadwell, Jefferson lived at the Randolph estate at Tuckahoe, along the banks of the James River, north of Richmond, for seven years starting in 1745. He returned to Shadwell at age nine. See Monticello website,
www.monticello.org
.
5
John Quincy Adams,
Writings of John Quincy Adams
(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), 373.
6
Note 2, query 4, on mountains, from Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia
(Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1853), 215. Jefferson was wrong about the origin of the Gulf of Mexico; see chap. 1.
7
Quoted in Paul Calore,
The Causes of the Civil War
(New York: McFarland, 2008), 200.
8
Peter S. Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000), 7, 60.
9
The great statement of this argument is Federalist 10; Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire
, 54; Drew R. McCoy,
The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980); and William Appleman Williams,
Empire as a Way of Life
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 39, 47.
10
Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire
, 80, 82.
11
First Inaugural Address; Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire
, 132.
12
Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire
, 58.
13
Franklin W. Knight, “The Haitian Revolution,”
American Historical Review
105, no. 1 (Feb. 2000): 103â108; Tim Matthewson, “Jefferson and Haiti,”
Journal of Southern History
61, no. 2 (May 1995): 211â13; and Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,”
Critical Inquiry
26, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 821â37.
14
Knight, “The Haitian Revolution,” 107â108; Matthewson, “Jefferson and Haiti,” 211â13.
15
Matthewson, “Jefferson and Haiti,” 232â33.
16
Hugh Thomas,
Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom
(New York: Da Capo, 1998), 77.
17
Thomas,
Cuba
, 75â80; Louis A. Pérez, Jr.,
Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 70â75.
18
Ladislao Guerra Valiente,
Las Huellas del Génesis: Guantánamo Hasta 1870
(Guantánamo: Editorial el Mar y Montaña, 2004), 41; Jacobo de la Pezuela,
Diccionario geográfico, estadÃstico, histórico de la isla de Cuba
, tomo 2 (Madrid: Imprenta del Establecimiento de Mellado, 1863), 497.
19
Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro GarcÃa,
Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837â1959
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 66â67.
20
“Annual Report on Foreign Commerce for the Year Ended September 1865,” GuantánamoâFrancis Badell, Consular Agent, 38 Congress, 2nd sess., serial set vol. 1227, sess. no. 11.
21
Guerra Valiente,
Las Huellas del Génesis
, 44â53.
24
On the melting pot, see Jonathan M. Hansen,
The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890â1920
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 98â99.
25
Thomas Jefferson to the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, and Chipeway, Dec. 21, 1808, in Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, ed.,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
(Charleston, S.C.: Nabu Press, 2010), 439; Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire
, 51.
26
Walter L. Williams, “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism,”
Journal of American History
66, no. 4 (March 1980): 811â27; Hansen,
The Lost Promise of Patriotism
, chap. 1.
27
Williams,
Empire as a Way of Life
, 69; Zoltan Vajda, “Thomas Jefferson on the Character of an Unfree People: The Case of Spanish America,”
American Nineteenth Century History
8, no. 3 (Sept. 2007): 273â92.
28
Williams,
Empire as a Way of Life
, 65.
29
Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, Oct. 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.
30
James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1823, Jefferson Papers.
32
The Monroe Doctrine, Message of President Monroe to Congress, December 2, 1823, in Ruhl T. Bartlett, ed.,
The Record of American Diplomacy: Documents and Readings in the History of American Foreign Relations
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964), 181â83.
34
John Quincy Adams to Hugh Nelson, April 28, 1823, in Bartlett, ed.,
Record of American Diplomacy
, 231â34.
35
Daniel Webster, Speech on the Panama Mission, U.S. House of Representatives, April 1826, in Robert F. Smith, ed.,
What Happened in Cuba? A Documentary History
(New York: Twayne, 1963), 33â36.
36
Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 36; Louis A. Pérez, Jr.,
Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 104â10; Thomas,
Cuba
, 93â105.
37
Zanetti and GarcÃa,
Sugar and Railroads
, 57; Ada Ferrer,
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868â1898
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 2.
38
See, for example, the intercepted letter presented to the British Parliament from a slave trader to fellow traders warning them to steer clear of Guantánamo.
Philadelphia Inquirer
, Aug. 13, 1825, 3.
39
Tom Chaffin, “âSons of Washington': Narciso López, Filibustering, and U.S. Nationalism, 1848â1851,”
Journal of the Early Republic
15, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 93â94, 106â108.
40
Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 38.
42
James Buchanan to Romulus M. Saunders, June 17, 1848, in Bartlett,
Record of American Diplomacy
, 234â37; Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 39â44.
43
William L. Marcy to Charles W. Davis, March 15, 1854, Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 58â59, cf. 55. Cf. C. Stanley Urban, “Africanization of Cuba Scare,”
Hispanic American Historical Review
37, no. 1 (Feb. 1957): 29â45.
44
Robert E. May,
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 270â72.
45
John Bach McMaster,
A History of the People of the United States
,
from the Revolution to the Civil War
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921), 133â41; Tom Chaffin,
Fatal Glory: Narciso López and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996), esp. chap. 2; Robert E. May,
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), 24â30.
46
Ostend Manifesto, Oct. 18, 1854, in Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 65.
50
George Fitzugh, “Destiny of the Slave States,”
De Bow's Review
(Sep. 1854), in Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 70; Maturin M. Ballou,
History of Cuba, or Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics
(Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1954), in Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 72â73.
51
W. H. Holderness to Palmerston, Sept. 22, 1854, in Gavin B. Henderson, ed., “Southern Designs on Cuba, 1854â1857, and Some European Opinions,”
Journal of Southern History
, 5, no. 3 (Aug. 1939): 375â76.
52
Robert Steven Levine,
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 201â204.
53
Delany's planning did not advance farâin the nonfiction world, that is; see Martin Delany, “Annexation of Cuba,”
North Star
, April 27, 1849. It advanced considerably
in his novel
Blake, or the Huts of Africa
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1970), part 2. See also James T. Campbell,
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787â2005
(New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 72â76.
54
Sean Wilentz, “Who Lincoln Was,”
The New Republic
, July 15, 2009, 24â47.
55
In the immediate antebellum era, annexationist sentiment on Cuba did not cut strictly along sectional lines; see McMaster,
A History of the People of the United States
, 139.
56
“Our Guantánamo Correspondence,”
Weekly Herald
(New York), Dec. 12, 1857, 1.
57
“The Slave Trade,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 9, 1860, 2.
58
Bradley Michael Reynolds, “Guantánamo Bay, Cuba: The History of an American Naval Base and Its Relationship to the Formulation of United States Foreign Policy and Military Strategy Toward the Caribbean, 1895â1910,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1982, 22.
59
Ferrer,
Insurgent Cuba
, 15â17.
61
Ulysses S. Grant, Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 7, 1875, in Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 82â84; Smith,
What Happened in Cuba?
, 85â87; Pérez,
Cuba
, 129â35; and Thomas,
Cuba
, 271â72.