Episode 3: The War for Independence and BIPOC

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Acknowledgements: Many thanks are due to the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, and specifically to Jonathan Wood, a naturalist and park manager at the site, for assisting us in the creation of this episode’s digital component. The Banneker site advised us in selecting an artifact to model using Sketchup, and provided reference images for the jaw harp in the museum’s collections.

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1. Bryan Rindfleisch, “Pontiac’s Rebellion,” Mount Vernon, accessed October 2, 2022, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/pontiacs-rebellion/#:~:text=Pontiac’s%20Rebellion%20(1763%2D1765),following%20the%20Seven%20Years’%20War.
2. Ohio History Central, “Pontiac,” Ohio History Connection, accessed October 2, 2022, https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Pontiac.
3. Alastair Sweeny, Thomas Mackay: The Laird of Rideau Hall and the Founding of Ottawa, (University of Ottawa Press, 2022), 12.
4. Robert Julian Agnel, “Ottawa River ‘Kichesippi’ – The Great River,” June 20, 2005, https://www.worldwidepanorama.org/wwp605/RobertAgnel-1061.html
5. Rindfleisch, “Pontiac’s Rebellion.”
6. Ibid.
7. Monticello, “Jefferson and American Indians,” Monticello, accessed October 2, 2022, https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/origins-of-the-expedition/jefferson-and-american-indians/; Stefan L. Brandt, “The American Revolution and Its Other: Indigenous Resistance Writing from William Apess to Sherman Alexie,” AAA: Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik 42, no. 1 (2017) 35-56, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379457#metadata_info_tab_contents
8. Alfred A. Cave, “The Delaware Prophet Neolin: A Reappraisal,” Ethnohistory 46, no. 2 (Spring, 1999):. 265-290, https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.neu.edu/stable/482962?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
9. Ibid., 267.
10. Thomas J. Maxwell, “Pontiac Before 1763,” Ethnohistory 4, no. 1 (Winter 1957): 43, https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.neu.edu/stable/480635?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents; Rindfleisch, “Pontiac’s Rebellion.”
11. Rindfleisch, “Pontiac’s Rebellion.”
12. Ibid.
13. Richard Middleton, “Pontiac: Local Warrior or Pan-Indian Leader?” Michigan Historical Review 32, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 1-32, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20174167.
14. Maxwell, “Pontiac Before 1763,” 41.
15.  “Benjamin Banneker,” Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, accessed October 15, 2022. Benjamin Banneker | Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum (friendsofbenjaminbanneker.com).
16. “Benjamin Banneker: 1731-1806,” Part 2: 1750-1805, Revolution, Africans in America, accessed October 16, 2022. “Africans in America/Part 2/Benjamin Banneker (pbs.org)
17. Ellen E. Swartz, “Removing the Master Script: Benjamin Banneker ‘Re-Membered’.” Journal of Black Studies 44, no. 1 (January 2013): 41.
18. “To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, 19 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0049. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 22, 6 August 1791 – 31 December 1791, ed. Charles T. Cullen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986, pp. 49–54.]
19. Ibid.
20. Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection, Notes on the state of Virginia (Boston: Lilly and Wait, 1832), pdf, https://www.loc.gov/item/03004902/., image 150/285.
21. John F. Mahoney, “The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker,” AP Central, College Board, accessed October 17, 2022, The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker – AP Central | College Board.
22. “Benjamin Banneker: 1731-1806,” Africans in America/Part 2/Benjamin Banneker (pbs.org).
23. Notes on the state of Virginia, image 152/285.
24. Ibid., image 153/285.
25. “To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, 19 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0049. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 22, 6 August 1791 – 31 December 1791, ed. Charles T. Cullen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986, pp. 49–54.]
26. Mahoney, “The Mathematical Puzzles.” AP Central