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Educated in tyranny : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's university

Maurie Dee McInnis (Editor, Author), Louis P. Nelson (Editor, Author)
"Maurie McInnis, Louis Nelson, and a group of contributing authors tell the largely unknown story of slavery at the University of Virginia. While UVA has long been celebrated as fulfilling Jefferson's desire to educate citizens to lead and govern, McInnis and Nelson document the burgeoning political rift over slavery as Jefferson tried to protect southern men from anti-slavery ideas in northern institutions. In uncovering this history, "'Educated in tyranny' changes how we see the university during its first fifty years and understand its history hereafter."--University of Virginia Press, Press release

Print Book, English, 2019
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2019