Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Format
Book
ISBN
0195153472, 9780195153477
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Status
Argenta Library - Non-Fiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Family farms -- United States -- History.
Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Influence.
Land settlement -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Louisiana Purchase.
Plantation owners -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Influence.
Land settlement -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Louisiana Purchase.
Plantation owners -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Language
English
ISBN
0195153472, 9780195153477
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-335) and index.
Description
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 Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kennedy, R. G. (2003). Mr. Jefferson's lost cause: land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Roger G. 2003. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Roger G. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase Oxford University Press, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Roger G. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase Oxford University Press, 2003.
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