03064cam a2200385 a 4500 121921 20230404125809.0 111228s2012 nyuabj b 001 0 eng 17098118 2011052231 9780374299569 (alk. paper) 9780374534028 DLC DLC DLC pcc n-us-va 002 E 332.2 W647m 2012 973.4/6092 Wiencek, Henry. Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 336 p. : ill. maps, geneal. tables ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.305-315)and index. "Let there be justice" -- Pursued by the black horse -- "We lived under a hidden law" -- "The hammer or the anvil" -- The Bancroft paradox -- "To have good and human heart" -- What the blacksmith saw -- What the colonel saw -- A mother's prayers -- "I will answer for your safety... banish all fear" -- "To serve the faithful" -- The double aspect -- America's Cassandra -- The man in the iron mask -- "I only am escaped alone to tell thee" -- "The effect on them was electrical" -- "Utopia in full reality" -- Jefferson anew. Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive Master of the Mountain―based on new information coming from archival research, archaeological work at Monticello, and hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Thomas Jefferson's own papers―opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's faraway world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. 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 profit" gained from his slaves―and thanks to the skewed morals of the political and social world that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. 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. Slaves are bought, sold, given as gifts, and used as collateral for the loan that pays for Monticello's construction―while Jefferson composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what he himself called "the execrable commerce." Many people saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had become deeply corrupted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story? Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Relations with slaves. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Relación con esclavos. Slaves Virginia Albemarle County History. Esclavos Virginia Condado Albermale Historia. Plantation life Virginia Albemarle County History. Vida en plantaciones Virginia Condado Albermale Historia. Monticello (Va.) History. lcc bk JaaM 4914 4914 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 E 332.2 W647m 2012 00000114379 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk