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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
Garry Wills
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| #897265 in Books | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2003-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.75 x5.50l, | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Now I know why the capital is where it is.|By Newton Ooi|This very short book examines the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson, black slavery, and his political foes on the topic of slavery, namely Timothy Pickering from Massachusetts. Written both as a piece of history, and as a critique of other works on this same topic, this book flows quickly and smoothly as th|.com |Garry Wills' "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, despite its title, is not a profile of the Jefferson Presidency. Rather, the book offers a richly detailed study of the United States' tragic constitutional bargain with slavery, and me
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery. Jefferson won the election of 1800 with...
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