Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase

Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase /

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 Ro...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Roger G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Influence.
Louisiana Purchase.
Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories.
Plantation owners > Political activity > United States > 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.
United States > Colonial question.
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