{"id":10126,"date":"2023-03-18T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:14:11","slug":"noted-without-comment-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/noted-without-comment-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted without comment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Historian David Hackett Fisher&#8217;s latest book is titled <em>African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideas<\/em> (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022) In his discussion of the eighteenth century in French Louisiana, Fisher says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63cdb87f9cb652b5f3fd61ec6f535de6\">&#8220;The French know it well and say it best: <em>plus la diversit\u00e9, plus l&#8217;unit\u00e9.<\/em> In the age of the Enlightenment, David Hume and James Madison were were both quick to understand the uses of that idea. They helped to invent a new science of politics, and inspired the design of the early American republic, which was grounded in the uses of diversity as keys to liberty and freedom. In a later era, some of us have forgotten what they had learned.&#8221; [p.486]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian David Hackett Fisher&#8217;s latest book is titled African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideas (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022) In his discussion of the eighteenth century in French Louisiana, Fisher says: &#8220;The French know it well and say it best: plus la diversit\u00e9, plus l&#8217;unit\u00e9. In the age of the Enlightenment, David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/noted-without-comment-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noted without comment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[864,1191],"class_list":["post-10126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-anti-racism","tag-commonplace-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12654,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}