Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's writings on slavery and race : "[God's] justice can not sleep forever" /

Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's writings on slavery and race : "[God's] justice can not sleep forever" /

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Author / Creator:	Holowchak, Mark, 1958- author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Political and social views. Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826. Slavery -- Political aspects -- Virginia -- History. Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. Political and social views. Slavery -- Political aspects. United States. Virginia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456502

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ISBN:	9781527545199 1527545199 1527544486 9781527544482
Notes:	Onlione resource; title from digital title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2020).
Summary:	Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed ""hagiographical"" scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable result has been a depiction, iterated and reiterated uncritically by scholars, of a less-than-human Jefferson, presenting him as an inveterate hypocrite and racist. Thus, Jeffersonian scholarship, as argued here, has become an exercise in useless, fatuous repetition of the same claims that has impeded attempts by serious
Other form:	Print version: Holowchak, M. Andrew. Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's writings on slavery and race. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 9781527544482

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
ISBN:	9781527545199 1527545199 1527544486 9781527544482