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Thomas Jefferson's Education

  • Format
  • E-bog, ePub
  • Engelsk
  • 448 sider
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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 he prevails, Jefferson's vision of reform through education is hobbled by the actions of genteel students with a defiant sense of honour derived from owning slaves. It is the women of this hypermasculine society who redeem the best elements of his legacy.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal448
  • Udgivelsesdato15-10-2019
  • ISBN139780393652437
  • Forlag W. W. Norton & Company
  • FormatePub

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