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Alan (University of Virginia) Taylor

Thomas Jefferson's Education

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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 centre stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labour of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to commercially vibrant northern states, in 1819 Jefferson proposed to build a university to educate and improve the sons of the planter elite. He hoped they might one day lead a revitalised Virginia free of slavery-and free of the former slaves.Jefferson's campaign was a contest for the future of a state and the larger nation. Although… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-65242-0
  • EAN: 9780393652420
  • Produktnummer: 29900627
  • Verlag: WW Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.
  • Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.5 cm 760 g
  • Abbildungen: 23 illustrations
  • Gewicht: 760
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Alan Taylor has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in History, most recently for The Internal Enemy, also a National Book Award finalist. He is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.

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