Description By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery.
A man of "deft evasions" who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Mo.
It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor.
Description By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery