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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

Wills, Garry
Wills, Garry

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19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 1664439994
ISBN13: 9781664439993
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: Oct 21 2003
Language: English
In Negro President the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy (Chicago Tribune). In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions. In an eye-opening, ingeniously argued exposE, Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy.

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