Henry Wiencek. (2012). Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. Unabridged HighBridge.

Henry Wiencek. 2012. Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. HighBridge.

Henry Wiencek, Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. HighBridge, 2012.

Henry Wiencek. Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. Unabridged HighBridge, 2012.

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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 book-based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers-opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery, who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves-and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

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   • content: "This meticulous account indicts not only Jefferson but modern apologists who wish to retain him as a moral standard of liberty. Wiencek's vivid, detailed history casts a new slant on a complex man."
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   • content: "Well-rendered yet deeply unsettling. . . . Wiencek scours the primary sources . . . for a thoughtful reexamination of what was really going on behind the harmonious façade of the great house on the mountain. . . . Beautifully constructed reflections and careful sifting of Jefferson's thoughts and deeds."
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     That the author of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves, likely fathered several children with a slave, and used slaves as collateral to borrow funds to build Monticello is widely acknowledged. Historians often explain this paradox by claiming Jefferson was powerless to change the system, accusing those who now criticize Jefferson of “presentism.” Yet NBCC Award–winning historian Wiencek (The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White) reveals that many of Jefferson’s contemporaries, such as Quaker plantation owners in the 1770s and a prominent Virginian, Edward Coles, in 1819, freed their slaves. Coles begged Jefferson to lend his voice to the antislavery movement, as did fellow revolutionaries such as Lafayette and Thomas Paine. But, Wiencek says that the founder who referred to blacks as “degraded and different” with “no place in our country,” had a “fundamental belief in the righteousness of his power.” Jefferson, asserts Wiencek, began to prevaricate about slavery after computing “the silent profit” of 4% per year from the birth of slave children. This meticulous account indicts not only Jefferson but modern apologists who wish to retain him as a moral standard of liberty. Wiencek’s vivid, detailed history casts a new slant on a complex man. 8 pages b&w illus. Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

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     Historian Wiencek (An Imperfect God) presents a revisionist study of Jefferson and his oversight of Monticello and other plantations, overturning the picture of the revolutionary as a reluctant slaveholder. Estate records and Jefferson's writings document his change of opinion on slavery, away from the emancipationist leanings of his youth, brought on by personal economic considerations. Heavily in debt at the end of the Revolutionary War, Jefferson made sweeping changes in the operation of his plantation to increase profitability. Not only did the slaves provide field labor, they engaged in nail making, tinsmithing, and other trades. They also served as collateral for loans Jefferson needed to expand the plantation. Furthermore, his estate bred slaves for the internal American slave market. Jefferson also distanced himself from abolitionists and adopted racist rhetoric to justify his actions. VERDICT Narrator Brian Holsopple does an excellent job. This audiobook provides a troubling aspect of a complex man and the skewed moral universe in which he lived; recommended to all listeners.--Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ. Parkersburg Lib.

     Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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