Title: Silas Deane
1Silas Deane
2Key Ideas
- Define History.
- Describe the process historians use to determine
history. - How do historians know when their research is
complete?
3History
History is what happened in the past. What
really happened. Historians bring the past to
the present, without distorting it
Historians Messengers ? Wrong!
4Historyaccording to Davidson and Lytle
- History is not what happened in the past
rather, it is the act of selecting, analyzing,
and writing about the past. It is something that
is done, that is constructed, rather than an
inert body of data that lies scattered through
the archives. - page XIX
- Being courier to the past is not enough. For
better or worse, historians inescapably leave an
imprint as they go about their business asking
interesting questions about apparently dull
facts, seeing connections between subjects that
had not seemed related before, shifting and
rearranging evidence until it assumes a coherent
pattern. The past is not history, only the raw
material of it. How those raw materials come to
be fashioned and shaped is the central concern of
the rest of this book. - page XXIX
5Facts
- Historians collect, gather, select and then
organize facts ? History - Sources may matter
- http//www.foxnews.com/
- http//www.huffingtonpost.com/
- These will be where the facts of the future are
harvested by historians
6Historyaccording to Davidson and Lytle
- Summary
- Facts Methods History
7Silas Deane
- minor American diplomat to
- France
- Ilya Lichtenstein
- a second-rate diplomat
- D.R. Lewis
- Deane does not appear in
- most American history texts,
- and rightly so. He served
- as a distinctly second-rank
- diplomat
- Davison and Lytle
Second-rate or Founding Father?
8Facts I
- Deane is sent to Paris to help conclude a treaty
of alliance - Arthur Lee accuses him of cheating his country to
make a private profit - Deane writes letters that make him unpopular in
America - He goes into exile and nearly starves
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys passage
on a ship for America as his last chance to
redeem himself - He takes ill and dies before the ship can leave
rumors suggest he may have committed suicide
9Facts II
- Ben Franklin and Arthur Lee are members of the
delegation to Paris - Edward Bancroft is Deanes private secretary and
an American spy - Men who know Deane say he is talented but
ambitious and ought to be watched
10Facts III
- Before Deane leaves, he visits an American
artist, John Trumbull - The Boston Packet is delayed for several days by
a storm - On the last day of his life, Deane gets out of
bed in the morning - He puts on his clothes and buckles his shoes
(last day of life) - He eats breakfast (last day of life)
- When he takes ill, he tries to speak twice
- He is buried several days later
11Historian ? Julian Boyd
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys
passage on a ship for America as his last chance
to redeem himself -
- Before Deane leaves, he visits an American
artist, John Trumbull -
- ?
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- (The Boston Packet is delayed for several days by
a storm)
12Suicide?
J. Cutting
Bancroft
T. Paine
T. Jefferson
Anonymous obituaries
13Edward Bancroft
- Friend of Silas Deane
- Physician
- Spy for the USA
14Facts revisited
- Deane is sent to Paris to help conclude a treaty
of alliance - Arthur Lee accuses him of cheating his country to
make a private profit - Deane writes letters that make him unpopular in
America - He goes into exile and nearly starves
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys passage
on a ship for America as his last chance to
redeem himself - He takes ill and dies before the ship can leave
rumors suggest he may have committed suicide
- Deane is sent to Paris to help conclude a treaty
of alliance - Arthur Lee accuses him of cheating his country to
make a private profit - Deane writes letters that make him unpopular in
America - He goes into exile and nearly starves
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys passage
on a ship for America as his last chance to
redeem himself - He takes ill and dies before the ship can leave
rumors suggest he may have committed suicide
Deane is going back to America!
15Edward Bancroft
- Friend of Silas Deane
- Physician
- Spy for the USA
- Double Agent?
What does Deanes return to the United States
mean to Bancroft?
16Silas Deane
Write down the facts you would include in a
brief biography of Silas Deane. Use the stick
figure to create symbols of key items in your
biography.
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18Facts
- Deane is sent to Paris to help conclude a treaty
of alliance - Arthur Lee accuses him of cheating his country to
make a private profit - Deane writes letters that make him unpopular in
America - He goes into exile and nearly starves
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys passage
on a ship for America as his last chance to
redeem himself - He takes ill and dies before the ship can leave
rumors suggest he may have committed suicide - Ben Franklin and Arthur Lee are members of the
delegation to Paris - Edward Bancroft is Deanes private secretary and
an American spy - Men who know Deane say he is talented but
ambitious and ought to be watched - Before Deane leaves, he visits an American
artist, John Trumbull - The Boston Packet is delayed for several days by
a storm - On the last day of his life, Deane gets out of
bed in the morning - He puts on his clothes and buckles his shoes
(last day of life) - He eats breakfast (last day of life)
- When he takes ill, he tries to speak twice
- He is buried several days later
19Facts I
- Deane is sent to Paris to help conclude a treaty
of alliance - Arthur Lee accuses him of cheating his country to
make a private profit - Deane writes letters that make him unpopular in
America - He goes into exile and nearly starves
- Helped out by a gentleman friend, he buys passage
on a ship for America as his last chance to
redeem himself - He takes ill and dies before the ship can leave
rumors suggest he may have committed suicide