Priestey, Jefferson, and Adams: The émigre and American politics

Ginsberg, Judah B.

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Title

Priestey, Jefferson, and Adams: The émigre and American politics

Author(s)

Ginsberg, Judah B.

Issue Date

2005-09-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Priestley politics

Abstract

Even before his arrival in America, Priestley had become a lightning rod for the developing split between the old Revolutionary cohorts - Jefferson and Adams. Priestley's views on the French Revolution were anathema to Adams. In America, Priestley first told Adams that he had "made it a rule to take no part whatever in the politics of a country in which I am stranger". But he could not resist speaking out on the issues of the day, from the Alien and Sedition Acts to the election of Jefferson, two crit. developments in the Jefferson-Adams split. In addn., the relationship of Jefferson and Adams each to Priestley underwent a shift, and in this sense, Priestley became a symbol of their differences and of the emerging political parties.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127638

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2005v030p091

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Copyright 2005 Division of the History of Chemistry

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