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Keri | 24 | Hamilton Sideblog I care way too much about Aaron Burr. "okay so this burrfucker is my best friend Keri"

[sealwomen-deactivated20231204]

reblog with ur historical blorbo in the tags. mine is alix of hesse

[tallmadgeandtea]

I’m out here trying to learn about Abigail Adams and suddenly I’m learning about Aaron Burr’s generational trauma

[michonnegrimes]

Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr in HAMILTON

[nicholasbritel]

Hamilton: A very serious musical

[anthoniejcrowley]

🎵see you on the other side of the war🎵

[non-quixote-deactivated20231219]

Aaron Burr obitsu modeled&rendered in blender 2.82

[idkwhyiloveoldletterssomuch]

Extract of a letter from Aaron Burr to Theodosia Bartow Burr [15th December 1791, Philadelphia]

Your ‘nonsense’ about Voltaire contains more good sense than all the strictures I have seen upon his works put together. Next to your own ideas, those you gave me from Mr. J. were most acceptable. I wish you would continue to give me any fugitive ideas or remarks which may occur to you in the course of your reading; and what you call your rattling way, is that of all things which pleases me the most. In short, let the way be your own, and it cannot fail to be acceptable, to please, and to amuse.

[deionei-moved-deactivated202101]

Drunk and driven by a devil’s hunger 

[fiftysevenacademics]

Sodomy, Sensibility, and Male Friendships in Late Eighteenth Century America

This is the first of a three part essay that aims to demolish certain assumptions about homosexuality in Revolutionary-era America and establish a firm context for interpreting and the passionate friendship between Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens, and defending them as lovers. For blacklisting or tracking purposes, use the tag, “sodomy and sensibility”. I’m not an expert on this topic. I only got interested in it because of Hamilton the Musical. Since then, I’ve read two books and around 30 academic articles specifically on this topic, as well as a whole lot more on Hamilton and his milieu, generally. Basically, I just wrote this because I read a lot and got super interested in the topic and wanted to write my thoughts about it.

In the first post, I intend to dispel the notion that draconian laws against sodomy meant that the men who practiced it uniformly lived in fear. I will show that in spite of harsh laws and moral condemnation, sex between men was more often tolerated than punished. In the second post I will discuss the eighteenth century enthusiasm for “sensibility” that promoted intensely emotional, sensual relationships between men that were not only socially acceptable, but highly valued as a source of personal moral improvement and the cornerstone of an enlightened public sphere. Though ostensibly non-sexual, romantic friendships contained ample space for erotic attraction and activities to flourish privately without shame or fear of repercussions. In the final post, I will situate Hamilton and Laurens within this context to show that no reason exists to designate their relationship as exclusively heterosexual. I will argue that theirs was most likely one of the intense friendships that included sexual intimacy, although unless new evidence turns up, we will never know for sure. However, it is important to view their relationship in its proper historical and social context, and not entirely through the lens of contemporary queer identities.

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Part I: Sodomy in Colonial America

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[19thcenturyfuck]

Re. Writers erasing Burr's involvement in history, in what ways do you think history would or could have been different if Burr wasn't there? Suppose he died in Quebec or something

Well, it’s hard to say for sure, considering the fact that someone would probably have eventually ended up doing the things he did, just most likely a lot later, but…

Election campaigns would be very different

Aaron Burr basically invented the modern election campaign in 1796 and 1800, not really being powerful or influential enough yet to run a traditional one.

Banks would still be able to deny people loans based on their political partisan affiliation

Of course, Burr’s founding a bank was ethically dubious at best, considering he did it claiming disaster relief and then did exactly jack shit about the actual disaster he was supposed to be relieving, but still.

Presidents and vice-presidents would still be elected separately

The reason they’re elected together now is mostly because of how much Jefferson hated Burr.

The definition of treason would be really vague

Burr’s trial really thoroughly went through US treason laws (Article 3 Section 3 or Ex parte Bollman??)

The judiciary might have been destroyed altogether in the early 1800s

Jefferson’s second attempt to destroy the judiciary (of 3, I’m pretty sure) started with the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, but Burr was not having any of that.

New York City wouldn’t be a grid

I mean, I don’t know if this really counts as a significant change, but y’know. The dude who proposed building the city in a Parisian-style layout got turned tf down by Burr in favor of a grid layout.

Parts of the Louisiana Territory would have been settled a lot later

A lot of members of the Burr expedition in 1805-6 basically became pioneers when the government started trying to arrest everyone involved.

And finally, of course, Alexander Hamilton. He might have died in a duel in 1797, with James Monroe–or he might have lived a much longer life on account of not dueling Burr.

[thrashbeatles]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VEE @hameowlton!!!!!

have a burr and his cat friend

[burrfucker]

dear god

I’M RIGHT THO

[burrfucker]

Idea

Sense and Sensibility but with hamburr

[washingtononyourside]

this is it. i did it. i uploaded the entirety of hamilton to youtube but i changed the titles of the songs to sound like pornhub titles so it’s all downhill from here you guys

[juuriawashere-deactivated201808]

goons and shoops

[reshille]

I examine the gun that we shared. Philip never hurt a soul. He must have been so scared. Please listen to the edited Hamilton song ‘Ten things One thing’ if you haven’t heard of it yet. It broke my already damaged heart.

[burrfucker]

I hate the term "revset + burr" Like Burr was in the fucking war why is he excluded from the set only to be included but still othered??