"To imagine the United States as a nation of immigrants, devoid of an Indigenous population, is not only a form of erasure; it is also historically inaccurate." @MJWitgen "A Nation of Settlers," WMQ April 2019, p. 398 #VastEarlyAmerica #ReadVast21

"Racial categories have never truly acted as accurate indicators of ancestry." @WEMilteer _North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885_ (@lsupress 2020), 9. #VastEarlyAmerica #ReadVast21

Also, thanks @PaulettRobert --"it was odd that a man who had spent a half-century in the service of emperors and kings should so vehemently denounce his former employer." 18thC Studies (2009) #VastEarlyAmerica #ReadVast21

"When tourists stay in the...Porcher House ...they are reinscribing the American decision to forget that the Revolution was a Civil War." @rnbrannon on _The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists_ (SCPress 2016) p. 172 #VastEarlyAmerica #ReadVast21