Title: Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves /
Authors: Wiencek, Henry.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, Relations with slaves.; Slaves Virginia Albemarle County History.; Plantation life Virginia Albemarle County History.; Monticello (Va.) History.
Abstract: "Master of the Mountain," Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers--opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world."--
Contents: "This steep, savage hill" -- "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 you 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.