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Women's Anti-Imperialism, ‘The White Man's Burden,’ and the Philippine-American War

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Erin L. Murphy
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At the Chicago Liberty Meeting in April 1899, organized to protest U.S. imperialist advances in the Philippines, Jane Addams was the only woman of eight plenary speakers. There she stated, “To ‘protect the weak’ has always been the excuse of the ruler and tax-gatherer, the chief, the king, the baron; and now, at last, of ‘the white man’” (Addams 1899). A few months earlier, in late 1898, the United States purchased the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris despite a preexisting revolutionary movement for independence. Subsequently, the Philippine-American War broke out, with Filipinos continuing to seek an end to colonial rule, be it the rule of Spain or the United States. President Roosevelt officially announced the war to be over on July 4, 1902, although fighting continued in some provinces through 1913.

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The Contradictions of Empire
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Special Issue S13: Course Reader No. 13. White Peril/Yellow Peril and Japan's Pan-Asian Visions, 1850-1930 , January 2014 , pp. 197 - 211
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