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Article: The great white fathers' failings: thoughtful new works by white authors sift through the conflicted views of Washington and Jefferson as Founding Fathers who were slave owners in the "land of the free".(An Imperfect God George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America)("Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power)(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2004
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An Imperfect God George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America
by Henry Wiencek Farrar, Straus & Giroux, November 2003 $26.00, ISBN 0-374-17526-8
"Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power
by Garry Wills Houghton Mifflin, November 2003 $25.00, ISBN 0-618-334398-9
It is an auspicious time for books to be published about powerful Southern white men and their views on race and slavery. It comes just as a once powerful Southern segregationist has been characterized as a hypocrite for fathering a child with a teenaged black maid. After the death of her father, U.S. Senator Strum Thurmond, Essie Mae Washington-Williams ...
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Article: Skeletons in the Closet.(Negro President": Jefferson and the ...
The Nation;
January 5, 2004 ;
700+ words
...Perhaps the best way to understand the history of the early American Republic is as a prolonged variation on the theme of the French Revolution. Although the starting date for that event is usually given as 1789, the process actually began a year or two earlier with a strange aristocratic prelude.
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