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History, Memory, and the Echoes of Equivalence in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie
From: Legacy
Date: 20070101
Author:Emerson, Amanda
In the second volume of James Fenimore Cooper's Notions of the Americans, the narrator, a British traveler to America, gives this account of equality:
Equal rights do not, in any part of America, imply a broad, general, and unequivocal equality. . . . [The American] does not give political power to the pauper, nor to females, nor to minors, nor to idiots, nor yet even to his priests. All he aims at is justice; and in order to do justice, he gives political rights to all those who, he thinks, can use them without abuse. (265)
Such is the contrarian quality of a national myth: nowhere in ...
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