Thomas Jefferson's Education

by Alan Taylor

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By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to commercially vibrant northern states, Jefferson in 1819 proposed to build a university to educate and improve the sons of the planter elite...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393652424

ISBN13:9780393652420

Release Date:October 2019

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.72 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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