Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves

Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiencek, Henry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with slaves.
Slaves > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
Plantation life > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
Monticello (Va.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • "This steep, savage hill"
  • "Let there be justice"
  • Pursued by the black horse
  • "We lived under a hidden law"
  • "The hammer or the anvil"
  • The Bancroft paradox
  • "To have good and human heart"
  • What the blacksmith saw
  • What the colonel saw
  • A mother's prayers
  • "I will answer for your safety ... banish all fear"
  • "To serve you faithful"
  • The double aspect
  • America's Cassandra
  • The man in the iron mask
  • "I only am escaped alone to tell thee"
  • "The effect on them was electrical"
  • "Utopia in full reality"
  • Jefferson anew.

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