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Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Mr Jefferson's Lost Cause Land Farmers Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase
Author: Roger G. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examinat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195176070
ISBN-10: 0195176073
Publication Date: 8/10/2004
Pages: 350
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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