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“The Funeral, [14 July 1804],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0271.

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“The Funeral, [14 July 1804].”

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Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, vol. 3 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911), 92, https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/farrand-the-records-of-the-federal-convention-of-1787-3vols.

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Henry Bain, “Errors in the Constitution—Typographical and Congressional,” Prologue Magazine 44, no. 2 (Fall 2012), https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/const-errors.html.

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“James Madison to Jared Sparks, 8 April 1831,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-2323.

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One: Clara Brown, Kentucky, 1830s

Because Clara was illiterate, she never wrote her own version of events, instead recounting them many times to family and friends. This dialogue is reconstructed from oral histories of Clara’s life.

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Karen A. Johnson, “Undaunted Courage and Faith: The Lives of Three Black Women in the West and Hawaii in the Early 19th Century,” Journal of African American History, 91, no. 1 (Winter 2006).

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Kathleen Bruyn, “Aunt” Clara Brown: Story of a Black Pioneer (Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1970), 3.

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Linda Lowery, One More Valley, One More Hill: The Story of Aunt Clara Brown (New York: Random House, 2002), 17–18.

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Jeanne Varnell, Women of Consequence: The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame (Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 1999), 1.

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Reconstructed from oral histories.

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Johnson, “Undaunted Courage and Faith.”

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Gayle Corbett Shirley, More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2012), 4.

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Varnell, Women of Consequence, 1.

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Bruyn, “Aunt” Clara Brown, 13.

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Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Settlers of the America West (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015), 25.

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Erin McCawley Renn, “German Food: Customs and Traditions in the Missouri Ozarks,” OzarksWatch III, no. 3 (Winter 1990): 16, https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow303f.htm.

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Renn, “German Food,” 16.

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Reconstructed from oral histories.

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Snodgrass, Settlers of the America West, 25.

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