Joel Barlow

Contributions

1. Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of general revolution in the principle of government, Part I has translation has other edition author
2. Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of general revolution in the principle of government. Part II has paratext has other edition author
3. Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of general revolution in the principle of government. Part II translation author
4. Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe resulting from the necessity and propriety of general revolution in the principle of government. Part II paratext author
5. A letter to the National Convention of France, on the defects in the Constitution of 1791, and the extent of the amendments which ought to be applied: To which is added The conspiracy of kings, a poem. By Joel Barlow, author of Advice to the privileged orders; and The vision of Columbus has translation has other edition author
6. A letter to the National Convention of France, on the defects in the Constitution of 1791, and the extent of the amendments which ought to be applied: To which is added The conspiracy of kings, a poem. By Joel Barlow, author of Advice to the privileged orders; and The vision of Columbus translation author
7. A letter to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French Revolution, and the necessity of adopting its principles in Italy. Translated from the French by the author translation has paratext has other edition translator
8. A letter to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French Revolution, and the necessity of adopting its principles in Italy. Translated from the French by the author translation translator
9. A letter to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French Revolution, and the necessity of adopting its principles in Italy. Translated from the French by the author paratext author
10. Avis aux ordres privilégiés, dans les divers états de l'Europe, tiré de la nécessité, dans le sens proprement dit, d'une révolution génèrale dans le principe du gouvernement. Par Joël Barlow translation uncertainty translator
11. Lettre adressée aux habitants du Piémont, sur les avantages de la Révolution française et la nécessité d'en adopter les principes en Italie, par Joel Barlow has translation author
12. New translation of Volney's Ruins or Meditations on the Revolution of Empires translation has paratext has other edition translator
13. New translation of Volney's Ruins or Meditations on the Revolution of Empires paratext author
14. New translation of Volney's Ruins or Meditations on the Revolution of Empires. Made under the inspection of the author translation translator
15. New travels in the United States of America, performed in 1788 translation paratext has other edition translator
16. New travels in the United States of America, performed in 1788 translation has paratext translator
17. New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. By J.P. Brissot de Warville. Translated from the French translation has other edition translator
18. New travels in the United States of America, performed in M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c. translation has paratext has other edition translator
19. New travels in the United States of America, performed in M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c. translation has paratext translator
20. New travels in the United States of America, performed in M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c. paratext author
21. New travels in the United States of America, performed in M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c. paratext author
22. The commerce of America with Europe, particularly with France and Great Britain, comparatively stated and explained, shewing the importance of the American revolution to the interest of France and pointing out the actual situation of the United States of North America in regard to trade, manufactures and population. By J.P. Brissot de Warville and Etienne Clavière, translated from the last French edition, revised by Brissot and called the second volume of his view of America. With a life of Brissot and an appendix by the translator translation has paratext translator
23. The Political Writings of Joel Barlow author

Knows

• Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
• Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney historian journalist philosopher politician professor
• Etienne Clavière abolitionist entrepreneur journalist politician
• John Fellows bookseller civil servant freemason journalist military publisher writer
• William Godwin journalist novelist philosopher writer
• Thomas Hardy politician
• John Horne Tooke cleric journalist linguist politician writer
• Thomas Jefferson philosopher politician translator writer
• Joseph Johnson publisher
• Jeremiah Samuel Jordan bookseller publisher writer
• Nicholas Madgett civil servant cleric translator writer
• James Madison philosopher politician writer
• Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau abolitionist pamphleteer politician translator writer
• Jean-Baptiste-François Née de La Rochelle bookseller jurist publisher writer
• Thomas Paine journalist philosopher revolutionary writer
• Sampson Perry journalist pamphleteer physician publisher writer
• Richard Price cleric philosopher translator writer
• John Hurford Stone entrepreneur publisher writer
• Thomas Greenleaf bookseller publisher
• David Baillie Warden cleric diplomat military physician revolutionary teacher translator writer
• David Williams cleric philosopher translator writer
• Mary Wollstonecraft novelist philosopher translator traveller writer
• Alvise Zenobio translator writer

Member of

• Freemasonry masonic lodge
• Girondists political organisation
• Helen Maria Williams Salon salon
• Legislative Assembly political institution
• London Corresponding Society political organisation publisher
• Société des amis des droits de l'homme ('British club') political organisation
• Society for Constitutional Information political organisation

Notes

On his translation activities, see Leech, 'Cosmopolitanism', pp. 95ff. On his entrepreneurial activities and networks, see Annie Jordan, 'A Tale of Three Patriots in a Revolutionary World' (Early American Studies, Spring 2012, vol.10 no.2, pp.360-81). By 1796, he was estimated to be worth $120,000 from his role as a broker, especially from his time spent in Hamburg as agent to the Paris-based American businessman James Swan, who was the primary "subsistence" trader for revolutionary France. Barlow returned to the USA in 1805, became a bank president and supported President Thomas Jefferson and then his political heir, James Madison. He died in Poland from pneumonia while trying to negotiate a comprehensive agreement with Napoleon to avoid a "double war" with France and England (Jordan, p.373-74).