A few weeks ago, while browsing through issues of John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States, I came across an intriguing text whose author I could not identify. The text in question was a polemic “On Slavery,” excerpted from a larger work called “American Essays.”  At the end of the piece appeared the initials “E.C.”  My first thought was that this might be a mangled attribution to Crèvecouer, but that was a stretch. I took the problem to history Twitter, to see if anyone recognized either the initial essay, the collection “American Essays,” or the style or initials of the Read more