resources

Lafayette the Abolitionist

Lafayette Society – Lafayette and Slavery

https://www.lafayettesociety.org/lafayette-and-slavery/

Mount Vernon – Lafayette’s Plan for Slavery

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/marquis-de-lafayettes-plan-for-slavery/

Lafayette College – Lafayette and Slavery

https://sites.lafayette.edu/slavery/

Cornell University – Lafayette and Abolition

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/exhibition/english/abolitionist/index.html

Mount Vernon – James Armistead and Lafayette

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/spying-and-espionage/american-spies-of-the-revolution/lafayettes-testimonial-to-james-armistead-lafayette/

Lafayette College – James Armistead Lafayette

https://sites.lafayette.edu/slavery/james-armistead-lafayette/

C-Span – James Armistead Lafayette

https://www.c-span.org/video/?415962-1/slave-revolutionary-war-spy-james-lafayette

Other Relevant Sites

History.com – 10 things you may not know about Lafayette

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-marquis-de-lafayette

Georgia Encyclopedia – Lafayette in Georgia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/marquis-de-lafayette-georgia%3Famp

Findagrave.com – Lafayette’s Grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1641/marquis-de-lafayette

The New Yorker Magazine

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/09/boys-in-the-band/amp

C-Span on Lafayette

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4592160/marquis-de-lafayette#

Other Lafayette Organizations

American Friends of Lafayette

https://friendsoflafayette.wildapricot.org/

The Lafayette Trail

https://thelafayettetrail.org/

The Lafayette Society

https://www.lafayettesociety.org/

 

Bibliography

Auricchio, Laura. The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Bris, Gonzague Saint and George Holoch. Lafayette: Hero of the American Revolution. New York: Pegasus Books, 2011.

Cray, David A. Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship the Saved the Revolution. New York: Bantam Books,  2013.

Carter, Hodding, The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom. New York: Random House, 1958.

Duhl, Olga Anna and Dian Windham Shaw. A True Friend of the Cause: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement. New York: The Grolier Club, 2016.

Fritz, Jean, and Ronald Himler. Why Not, Lafayette? New York: Puffin Books, 2001.

Gaines, James R. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.

Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Comes to America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1935.

Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Joins the American Army. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1937.

Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1942.

Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. (Combination of the above three works by Gottschalk)

Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Between the American and French Revolution 1783-1789. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1950.

Gottschalk, Louis and Margaret Maddox. Lafayette in the French Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Idzerda, Stanley, Anne C Loveland, Marc H Miller, and Queens Museum. Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Art and Pageantry of His Farwell Tour of America, 1824-1825. Hanover, New Hampshire: Queens Museum, 1989.

Kramer, Lloyd. Lafayette in Two Worlds: public cultures and personal identities in an age of revolutions. The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Leepson, Marc. Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014.

Levasseur, Auguste. Lafayette in America: 1824-1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States. Translated by Alan R. Hoffman. Lafayette Press, 2006.

Loveland, Anne C. Emblem of Liberty: The Image of Lafayette in the American Mind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.

Maas, John R. The Road to Yorktown: Jefferson, Lafayette, and the British Invasion of Virginia. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2015.

Maurois, Andre. Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de la Fayette.  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961.

Miller, Donald. Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, 2015.

Spalding, Paul S. Lafayette: Prisoner of State. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2010.

Unger, Harlow G. Lafayette. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2002.

Vowell, Sarah. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Turtleback Books, 2016.

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