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African Americans Anniversaries, etc African Americans Social life and customs African Americans Texas Galveston History HISTORY / African American Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Philiosophy Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Political and social views Juneteenth Slaves Emancipation Texas Slaves Emancipation United StatesGordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist, and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. The authors team up to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS GORGordon-Reed, Annette
Summary: Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021