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The article argues Federalist conspiracy theories influenced disunion feelings in New England during the Napoleonic era.
This article argues that Federalist writers propagated a conspiracy theory that Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison sold American independence to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to defeat old and New England. Often overlooked by historians, this conspiracy framed New Englanders’ disillusionment with the national government, stoking calls for disunion in the early nineteenth century.
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