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100	1		_aWiencek, Henry.
245	1	0	_aMaster of the mountain : _bThomas Jefferson and his slaves / _cHenry Wiencek.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2012.
300			_a336 p. : _bill. maps, geneal. tables ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p.305-315)and index.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_aHenry 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?
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Thomas, _d1743-1826 _xRelations with slaves.
600	1	4	_aJefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 _xRelación con esclavos.
650		0	_aSlaves _zVirginia _zAlbemarle County _xHistory.
650		4	_aEsclavos _zVirginia _zCondado Albermale _xHistoria.
650		0	_aPlantation life _zVirginia _zAlbemarle County _xHistory.
650		4	_aVida en plantaciones _zVirginia _zCondado Albermale _xHistoria.
651		0	_aMonticello (Va.) _xHistory.
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