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In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America
Chapter 1 - Madoc – explorer and discoverer of North America?
Chapter 2 - The Welsh and the colonisation of North America
Chapter 3 - Richard Price and the American Revolution
Chapter 4 - The Welsh American military contribution to the American War of Independence
Chapter 5 - The Welsh American political contribution to the American Revolution
Chapter 6 - Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe and the American West
Chapter 7 - The Welsh go West
Chapter 8 - Welsh Americans and the American Civil War
Chapter 9 - The Welsh and the industrialisation of America
Chapter 10 - Assimilation and the vanishing Welsh
Chapter 11 - Wales, the Welsh and the making of America – conclusions
Bibliographical essay
Index

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University of Wales Press

Date de parution

15 juillet 2021

EAN13

9781786837912

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

17 Mo

Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America 

Vivienne Sanders

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2021

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List of Figures

Contents 

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

Madoc: Explorer and Discoverer of North America? Madoc and the early colonisation of America Madoc’s descendants: the Welsh Indians ‘Madoc fever’ in America ‘Madoc fever’ in Wales Opposition to the Madoc story

The Welsh and the Colonisation of North America Welsh Quakers, Penn and Pennsylvania Welsh settlers in Delaware and South Carolina The Welsh contribution to education in the colonies Conclusions

Richard Price and the American Revolution Price and the taxation of the American colonies Price’sObservations on the Nature of Civil Liberty Price and the American Declaration of Independence Price’s invitation to America Price and the American Constitution Richard Price: conclusions

7 9 11 11 13 14

17 19 26 27 29

31 35 38 39 40 41 43

vi|WALES, THE WELSH AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

TheWelshAmericanMilitaryContributiontotheAmerican War of Independence Charles Lee ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne Daniel Morgan WelshAmericanLoyalists,neutralsandthecaseof Daniel Boone (1734–1820) Conclusions

TheWelshAmericanPoliticalContributionto the American Revolution The search for Welsh American contributors to the American Revolution Robert Morris (1734–1806) A lost Founding Father – Button Gwinnett (1735–77) Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe and the American West Meriwether Lewis’s background The aims of the Lewis and Clark expedition The expedition’s relations with the Indians Other problems on the expedition Lewis’s achievements Lewis’s life after the expedition James Monroe and the American West

The Welsh Go West Getting to America Why emigrate from Wales? The Welsh on the East Coast From the East Coast to the West Coast Life in the West Conclusions

Welsh Americans and the American Civil War Jefferson Davis (180889) Welsh American contributions to the Union victory The Welsh contribution to a Civil War that helped make America The perils of ethnic history

45 50 54 58

62 69

73 75 78 80

89 91 92 94 98 101 102 105

111 113 116 124 126 135 139

141 143 152

168 169

The Welsh and the Industrialisation of America Oliver Evans (1755–1819) Industrialisation Iron and steel CoalIndustry and business Quarrying and the stone industry Copper and tinplate Conclusions

CONTENTS |vii

Assimilation and the Vanishing Welsh How and why the Welsh ‘Americanized’ The acceptance of the Welsh – a myth? Welsh, Welsh American or American? John L. Lewis (1880–1969) and the American Dream Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) Beyond John L. Lewis and Frank Lloyd Wright

Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America – Conclusions A special people? ‘Nauseating’ Welsh writers

Bibliographical Essay

Bibliography of Works Referred to in the Text

Index

175 177 179 180 193 206 208 210 211

213 215 220 221 223 241 251

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List of Figures 

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Map showing the old counties of Wales

The USA in 1800

Portrait of William Penn, date and painter unknown

Welsh Quaker meeting house in Merion, Pennsylvania

Figure 5a and 5b Welsh Quaker meeting house, Merion, Pennsylvania

Figure 6

Figure 7

Figure 8

Figure 9

Richard Price

Benjamin Franklin

ThetitlepageofRichardPrice’sObservations on the Nature of Civil Liberty

Major battles of the American War of Independence

Figure 10 Robert Morris (right), painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1783

Figure 11 Jefferson’s Monticello home

Figure 12

Figure 13

The recreated slave quarters at Jefferson’s Monticello home

The Lewis and Clark expedition, charting the expedition route from St Louis to Fort Clatsop

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