The Garden And Farm Books Of Thomas Jefferson
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Group |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Includes Jefferson's correspondence, drawings, and plans for Monticello's gardens.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Gardening |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Ishi Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780923891800 |
Photoreproduction of mss. of T. Jefferson's Farm book: 178 p.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Barbara McEwan |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780786467327 |
Thomas Jefferson is best known as one of the founders of the United States. His chief love, however, was not politics, but farming. His writings abound with expressions of loathing for the former and perpetual fascination for the latter. "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens," he wrote to John Jay in 1785. While his contributions to the field of government overshadow his many other accomplishments, he also made many brilliant and expert contributions to the development of sustainable, regenerative methods of farming. The 11 chapters address a variety of issues that shaped Jefferson's farming including his methods, crops, alternative crops he promoted, farm machinery, his workers (overseer, slaves, and free workmen). Monticello, landscaping practices, and his plans for a school of botany at the University of Virginia. This book also brings to the fore the human qualities of the man in relation to both his family and his country and shows that his aspirations for both were habitually put before his own. Here is yet another way to understand that without Thomas Jefferson, America would have become a different nation.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Amer Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780871690227 |
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Annette Gordon-Reed |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813933560 |
When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies in many noted scholars' evaluations of the existing evidence. In this study, Gordon-Reed assembles a fascinating and convincing argument: not that the alleged thirty-eight-year liaison necessarily took place but rather that the evidence for its taking place has been denied a fair hearing. Friends of Jefferson sought to debunk the Hemings story as early as 1800, and most subsequent historians and biographers followed suit, finding the affair unthinkable based upon their view of Jefferson's life, character, and beliefs. Gordon-Reed responds to these critics by pointing out numerous errors and prejudices in their writings, ranging from inaccurate citations, to impossible time lines, to virtual exclusions of evidence—especially evidence concerning the Hemings family. She demonstrates how these scholars may have been misguided by their own biases and may even have tailored evidence to serve and preserve their opinions of Jefferson. This updated edition of the book also includes an afterword in which the author comments on the DNA study that provided further evidence of a Jefferson and Hemings liaison. Possessing both a layperson's unfettered curiosity and a lawyer's logical mind, Annette Gordon-Reed writes with a style and compassion that are irresistible. Each chapter revolves around a key figure in the Hemings drama, and the resulting portraits are engrossing and very personal. Gordon-Reed also brings a keen intuitive sense of the psychological complexities of human relationships—relationships that, in the real world, often develop regardless of status or race. The most compelling element of all, however, is her extensive and careful research, which often allows the evidence to speak for itself. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy is the definitive look at a centuries-old question that should fascinate general readers and historians alike.
Author | : Henry Wiencek |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466827785 |
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. 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. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?