Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's writings on slavery and race :: "[God's] justice can not sleep forever" /

Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed ""hagiographical"" scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable re...

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1. Verfasser: Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
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Zusammenfassung:Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed ""hagiographical"" scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable result has been a depiction, iterated and reiterated uncritically by scholars, of a less-than-human Jefferson, presenting him as an inveterate hypocrite and racist. Thus, Jeffersonian scholarship, as argued here, has become an exercise in useless, fatuous repetition of the same claims that has impeded attempts by serious
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
ISBN:9781527545199
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