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Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive e book - predicated on new information via archaeological just work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded data in Jefferson's paperwork - opens up a huge, poorly understood dimensions of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek implies, follow the money. Up to now historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this remarkable Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his junior and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery, who loved his renown as a groundbreaking leader yet stored a few of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a guy of business and general population affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent gains" gained from his slaves - and thanks to a skewed moral world that he and a large number of others readily inhabited. Many folks of Jefferson's time noticed a catastrophe arriving and tried to avoid it, however, not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness have been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very wealthy. Is this the quintessential American story?
