Mr. Jefferson's lost cause
Subtitle: land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
By: Roger G. Kennedy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780195153477
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Influence; Louisiana Purchase; Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories; Plantation owners -- United States -- Political activity -- History; Family farms -- United States -- History; Land settlement -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Territorial expansion; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The land and Mr. Jefferson.; title: Chapter 1.; title: Choices and consequences; title: Rain in Virginia and its results; title: Lessons for yeomen; title: Pasteur, Wilson, and the three sisters; title: Yeomen, planters, and the land; title: Cheap land and slave labor; title: Chapter 2.; title: Washington, Jefferson, three worthies, and plantation migrancy; title: Philosophers in the parlor and lessons on the land; title: Westward sweeps the course of desolation; title: The gospel of Garland Harmon; title: Chapter 3.; title: The way not taken; title: The makers of a new order; title: Jefferson's epitaph; title: Disestablishing the grandees; title: The brotherhood; title: The unpropitiated son; title: Monticello again; title: Jefferson and democracy; title: Jefferson and the family farmer; title: Chapter 4.; title: Independence; title: A dependent arcadia; title: The virtues of diversification; title: Commercial squires and ungovernable governors; title: Diversification, the pursuit of happiness, and cities; title: Eastward toward civility; title: The thousand-foot line; title: Chapter 5.; title: Powers of the earth; title: Land companies, trading companies, and triassic capitalism; title: The great land companies and revolution; title: Jefferson and western speculation; title: Veterans' benefits; title: Armed occupation; title: Armed occupation marches on; title: Chapter 6.; title: Jefferson's opportunities and the land; title: 1784 : the second opportunity : the trans-Appalachian West; title: The third opportunity : the lower Mississippi Valley; title: Old men's dreams and the memories of the land; title: Part two : The invisible empire and the land.; title: Chapter 7.; title: Colonial-imperialism; title: Colonies and empires; title: From round table to board table; title: Reinvesting the loot; title: Landed gentry; title: Chapter 8.; title: Textile colonial-imperialism; title: India is conquered by the mechanics; title: Solving the problem of supply; title: The Americans are put on notice; title: Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tench Coxe respond to William Pitt; title: Jefferson and the cotton business; title: Slaves as cash crop; title: The millers send out their salesmen; title: Independence?; title: The British and the plantocracy; title: Part three : Resistance to the plantation system.; title: Chapter 9.; title: McGillivray; title: Mixed people and mixed motives; title: Indian statehood; title: McGillivray's nationality; title: McGillivray and Washington; title: Chapter 10.; title: Resisters, assisters, and lost causes; title: Scots, Blacks, and Seminoles; title: The firm; title: The valences shift; title: William Augustus Bowles : the second act; title: Bowles and Ellicott; title: "Execute him on the spot"; title: The fox is run to earth; title: Chapter 11.; title: The firm steps forward; title: Deerskins, rum, and land; title: Indian yeomen and Governor Sargent's lost cause; title: Yankee yeomen; title: Chapter 12.; title: Jeffersonian strategy and Jeffersonian agents; title: Jefferson and Wilkinson; title: Wilkinson's clients; title: The firm adapts and collects; title: Wilkinson, Forbes, and Dearborn; title: Debt for land; title: The accounts of Silas Dinsmoor; title: The firm wraps things up; title: Andrew Jackson takes charge, with some help from Benjamin Hawkins; title: Part four : Agents of the master organism : assistants to the plantation system.; title: Chapter 13.; title: Fulwar Skipwith in context; title: Skipwith the Jeffersonian; title: Toussaint's yeoman republic; title: The career of Fulwar Skipwith; title: The quasi war and spoliation; title: James Monroe's first mission to France; title: Skipwith, the Livingstons, and Louisiana cotton; title: The chancellor, indolent maroons, and Thomas Sumter; title: Mister Sumter is shocked; title: The third article; title: Skipwith and the Floridas; title: Consul Skipwith goes to jail; title: Chapter 14.; title: Destiny by intention; title: The adventures of George Mathews; title: War, commerce, and race; title: Assisters and resisters; title: The green flag of Florida; title: Chapter 15.; title: Louisiana and another class of Virginians; title: The third opportunity reconsidered; title: The Hillhouse debates; title: Chapter 16.; title: The Virginians of Louisiana decide the future of the land; title: Out of the hills; title: The Kemper outrage; title: 1809-1810; title: Skipwith and Randolph; title: Complexities in Baton Rouge; title: Skipwith at bay; title: Haiti again; title: Skipwith's Florida; title: Epilogue.; title: The Jeffersonian legacy : the Civil War and the Homestead Act; title: Statesmanship and self-deception; title: Final thoughts; title: The economics of land use; title: Appendix.; title: Another stream; title: Jefferson, Madison, Adam Smith, and the Chesapeake cities; title: The Romans, armed occupation, and the Homestead Act; title: Jefferson and the Ordinances of 1784 and 1787-89; title: Debt and land; title: Jefferson's Doctrine of usufruct; title: Tribes, land, and Ireland; title: Creeks, Seminoles, and numbers; title: The Livingstons and West Florida; title: The Claiborne-Clark duel; title: Fulwar Skipwith and Andrew Jackson