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'Negro President': Jefferson And The Slave Power

Wills, Garry

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In 'Negro President,' the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave 'representation,' and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery. Jefferson won the election of 1800 with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves, who could not vote but who were partially counted as citizens. That count was known as 'the slave power' granted to southern states, and it made some Federalists call Jefferson the Negro President -- one elected only by the slave count's margin.

Hardcover. English. Houghton Mifflin. 2003. In good condition. Book No: 861

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'Negro President': Jefferson And The Slave Power

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