Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New RepublicInnovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic period is formed not only by expansionist designs on the North American continent but also by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the roots and routes of the West Indian trades. As Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, the chief architect of the United States as an empire for commerce, West Indian immigrant Alexander