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Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves
- Title
- Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.
- Author
- Wiencek, Henry.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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- Description
- 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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."--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780374299569 (alk. paper)
- 0374299560 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011052231
- 40021482954
- OCLC
- 771057350
- ocn771057350
- SCSB-5660768
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries