Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase /
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Ro...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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