Master of the Mountain Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

Name: Master of the Mountain Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
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ISBN: 9780374534028

ISBN-10: 0374534020

ISBN-13: 9780374534028

Edition: 2013

Authors: Henry Wiencek

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Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book-based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers-opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.23" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English