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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wiencek, Henry.     Subjects     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with enslaved persons.     Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.     Plantation life -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.     Monticello (Va.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wiencek, Henry.       by title:      Master of the mounta...         MARC Display

Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek. by 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.46092 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.46092 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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