'We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish It or Not': The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism.

This paper addresses the questions of the history of the book to the history of filihusterism. How did these soldiers of fortune and partisans of liberty, who exported revolution from the newly United States to the American territories of Spain, France, England, and the Native Nations communicate with their adversaries and partisans both publicly and in secret? The author shows how the texts associated with the founding of the United States were the model for manuscript writing, the press, and verbal rumor. He discovers that the operative binary for these adventurers' appropriation of communication forms was not public-private, but public-secret.