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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

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Battle Hymn of the Republic - Joan Baez

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

...those who have used formal authority to occupy militarily major cities, to build concentration camps, to launch strikes against foreign civilians, to condone the decimation of an entire people abroad and hate speech on U.S. soil, etc. We don’t need more violence. We do need more John Brown.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” meant something different then. But the core principles were the same. We may regret that Brown turned to violence—as long as we remember that the power he fought was built on violence. Likewise, today, condemnations of violence must first be directed against those wield the most power...

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

We might say that he obeyed a “higher law,” to use William Seward’s phrase, or that the law meant little if it did not recognize the inherent dignity of every human being. In ways that are all too reminiscent, the limits of democratic government and big capital were entwined in King Cotton.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

It was on October 18 that John Brown’s struggle against the Southern slave system collapsed. The fire engine house at Harper’s Ferry fell to U.S. Marines and Virginian militiamen. Brown would not hide behind the narrow legalism of federal statutes as contemporary abettors of the slave system did.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

A finding aid claims that this is "Spencer." I'm not persuaded.

Thoughts?

Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

May be of interest to @notchesblog.bsky.social.

Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI

From this week in 2024: Remembering Lucina Young, Olive Ash, Leafy Brown, Lydia Chase Cook, Mattie Spaulding, Harriet Titus Gaudette, Eliza McMahon, and Caroline Bettis.

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The Vermont Abortion Cases (1858-1878)

Eight cases discussed in the Vermont press reveal the social and legal context of abortion in the nineteenth century.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 5d

This edition of Pat's Pet Peeves was sponsored by historians. Historians—we're annoyed!

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 5d

AND FURTHERMORE,

2. Your grandfather using a canoe and your grandmother weaving baskets does not inherently imply Indigenous heritage or ancestry (no more than my grandfather driving a car means that he worked for GM). That's not how that works.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 5d

PAT'S PET PEEVES TIME!!!

1. Stop referring to your "nineteenth-century Québécois ancestors." Your ancestors were Canadian and/or French and/or French-Canadian, but they were not Québécois. They did not identify as such and it makes no sense to apply that identity to them retrospectively.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 6d

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 7d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Originals microfilmed then destroyed.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 9d

From Lacroix's Memebrary Classics.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 10d

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"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."

On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social

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A Brawl in Saint-Michel

A Lacroix immigrant ancestor faced the innumerable challenges of settling in New France, one being getting along with neighbors.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 New on the QTP 🚨

"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."

On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social

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A Brawl in Saint-Michel

A Lacroix immigrant ancestor faced the innumerable challenges of settling in New France, one being getting along with neighbors.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 11d

"I believe that to have interfered, as I have done . . . was not wrong but right."

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John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 15d

Beware of French Canadians selling horses! This anecdote was published in 1851 and again in 1903—each article offering a different source. As the editor of the latter paper likely did not know of the first, this appears to have been a street joke that circulated across the Northeast for generations.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 16d

Annual tradition.

Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 18d

Huge kudos are in order for Tim Beaulieu and the whole Vermont PoutineFest team. The inaugural event, held last weekend, was a long-awaited celebration of the Champlain Valley's French-Canadian heritage. Great things will come of this... including, undoubtedly, a second edition.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 24d

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Like 15,000 compatriots, Rémi Tremblay took part in the U.S. Civil War and lived a transnational life. But, in his case, horrific wartime experiences became a novel.

"Un Revenant" helped French Canadians make the story of the Civil War their own.

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The Ghost of Léon Duroc

Rémi Tremblay's semi-biographical Un Revenant occupies an obscure and unusual corner of Quebec's literary history.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 24d

Definitely here for all of the ST:TNG cross-over memes.

Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 25d

If you didn't have plans for the weekend, well, now you do. On Saturday, the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society's annual conference will focus on the semiquincentennial and the migrations that ensued. Come for the presentations—and stay for Vermont PoutineFest on Sunday.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 25d

As someone who just re-registered his car... no complaints about not getting raptured.

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Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 28d

From 1820. Respectfully, Woodstock Observer, you can't just slide that in without providing details.

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