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Subject:	Re: Jan Lewis on Master of Monticello
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I have found Garry Wills book on this subject, "Negro President," to be helpful.  Does Wiencek's book engage with Wills' arguments about Jefferson and slavery?



John Maass, Ph.D.

 

On 10/17/12, Jon Kukla<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Henry Wiencek's report of nail-factory discipline and the suppressed letter 
in The Farm Book were troubling, but some of the points made here by a 
long-time scholar of Jefferson and Monticello are troubling, too:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/what-did-thomas-jefferson-really-think-about-slavery.html

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