Useful only with explicit attribution because motive and private-benefit connections are interpretive.
The passage follows Washington's land disputes and precedes the excise-policy narrative.
Washington pursued western land, legal claims, canals, and eastward commercial integration while accepting temporary Mississippi closure; Slaughter argues that public strategy and private frontier interests overlapped without reducing policy to one motive.
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Chapter 5
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Washington pursued western land, legal claims, canals, and eastward commercial integration while accepting temporary Mississippi closure; Slaughter argues that public strategy and private frontier interests overlapped without reducing policy to one motive.
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Start: 94
End: 96
Section: Chapter 5
The passage follows Washington's land disputes and precedes the excise-policy narrative.
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Useful only with explicit attribution because motive and private-benefit connections are interpretive.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and rendered PDF sheets 94–96 on 2026-08-27.