Those who labor for my happiness : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello /
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| Author / Creator: | Stanton, Lucia C. |
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| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. |
| Description: | xiv, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jeffersonian America Jeffersonian America. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8771647 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Author's Note
- I. Jefferson and Slavery
- "Those Who Labor for My Happiness": Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
- Looking for Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the British Lions
- "A Well-Ordered Household": Domestic Servants in Jefferson's White House
- Jefferson's People: Slavery at Monticello
- Perfecting Slavery: Rational Plantation Management at Monticello
- II. Families in Slavery
- The Other End of the Telescope: Jefferson through the Eyes of His Slaves
- Free Some Day: The African American Families of Monticello
- III. Families in Freedom
- Monticello to Main Street: The Hemings Family and Charlottesville
- Bonds of Memory: Identity and the Hemings Family
- ôWe Will Prove Ourselves Menö: Hemings Descendants in the Civil War
- Fulfilling the Declaration: Descendants of MonticelloÆs African American Families
- Notes
- Index