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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Wiencek, Henry.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
Monticello (Va.) -- History.
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Master of the mounta...
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Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.
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Wiencek, Henry.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Subjects
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
Monticello (Va.) -- History.
ISBN:
9780374299569 (alk. paper) :
0374299560 (alk. paper)
Description:
336 p. : ill. maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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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"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."--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
973.46092 Wi
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Kealakekua Public Library
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973.46092 Wi
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