Notes on the State of Virginia
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1787 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1787 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Tobacco |
ISBN | : |
Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, first published in 1832, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1801 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Virginia |
ISBN | : 030022687X |
The first edition of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia to be based on both the 1785 first edition and the original manuscript "Forbes provides excellent context for Jefferson's writing of the Notes, exploring in depth the most controversial passages concerning race and slavery. This, along with careful editing of the text, allows scholars to appreciate and engage with the Notes in new ways."--Frank Cogliano, University of Edinburgh Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia has been called the most important book written in America before 1800. In the first edition to be based on both the 1785 first edition and the original manuscript, Robert Pierce Forbes uncovers Jefferson's extensive revisions, situating the work in the context of transatlantic debates over slavery and shedding new light on Jefferson's shocking disparagement of African Americans. This comprehensive annotated edition is a rich and valuable study of the work that catapulted the once little-known former governor and diplomat to international fame.
Author | : Frank L. Dewey |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813910796 |
At twenty-three, Thomas Jefferson became the youngest practitioner before Virginia's highest court. This is the first book to explore in depth the eight years that Jefferson spent as a trial lawyer. Frank L. Dewey considers how Jefferson prepared for his career, how he acquired a clientele, what kind of cases he handled, how he fared financially, and why he retired from the law. The principal sources for this account are found in unpublished notes of Jefferson. As Dewey pieces together these notes, a larger picture emerges. The appeal of Jefferson is universal, and Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer fills an important gap in our knowledge about him.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2014-01-05 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists. In 1895, the Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of librarian Cyrus Adler purchased the original Jefferson Bible from Jefferson's great-granddaughter Carolina Randolph for $400. A conservation effort commencing in 2009, in partnership with the museum's Political History department, allowed for a public unveiling in an exhibit open from November 11, 2011, through May 28, 2012, at the National Museum of American History.
Author | : Robert Beverley |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469607956 |
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author | : Dustin Gish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107157366 |
This analysis of Thomas Jefferson's only published work demonstrates the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and dissemination.
Author | : Woody Holton |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2011-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807899860 |
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.