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100 1 $aKennedy, Roger G.
245 10 $aMr. Jefferson's lost cause :$bland, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase /$cRoger G. Kennedy.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
300 $axv, 350 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-335) and index.
505 0 $aThe Land and Mr. Jefferson -- Choices and Consequences -- Rain in Virginia and Its Results Lessons for Yeomen -- Pasteur, Wilson, and the Three Sisters Yeomen, Planters, and the Land -- Cheap Land and Slave Labor -- Washington, Jefferson, Three Worthies, and Plantation Migrancy Philosophers in the Parlor and Lessons on the Land Westward Sweeps the Course of Desolation The Gospel of Garland Harmon -- The Way Not Taken -- The Makers of a New Order -- Jefferson's Epitaph Disestablishing the Grandees -- The Brotherhood -- The Unpropitiated Son Monticello Again -- Jefferson and Democracy Jefferson and the Family Farmer -- Independence -- A Dependent Arcadia -- The Virtues of Diversification Commercial Squires and Ungovernable Governors Diversification, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Cities Eastward Toward Civility -- The Thousand-Foot Line -- Powers of the Earth Land Companies, Trading Companies, and Triassic Capitalism The Great Land Companies and Revolution Jefferson and Western Speculation -- Veterans' Benefits Armed Occupation -- Armed Occupation Marches On -- Jefferson's Opportunities and the Land 1784 -- The Second Opportunity -- The Trans-Appalachian West The Third Opportunity -- The Lower Mississippi Valley Old Men's Dreams and the Memories of the Land -- The Invisible Empire and the Land -- Colonial-Imperialism -- Colonies and Empires From Round Table to Board Table -- Reinvesting the Loot Landed Gentry -- Textile Colonial-Imperialism -- India Is Conquered by the Mechanics Solving the Problem of Supply -- The Americans Are Put on Notice Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tench Coxe Respond to William Pitt Jefferson and the Cotton Business -- Slaves as Cash Crop The Millers Send Out Their Salesmen -- Independence? The British and the Plantocracy -- Resistance to the Plantation System -- McGillivray -- Mixed People and Mixed Motives -- Indian Statehood McGillivray's Nationality -- McGillivray and Washington -- Resisters, Assisters, and Lost Causes Scots, Blacks, and Seminoles -- The Firm -- The Valences Shift William Augustus Bowles--The Second Act Bowles and Ellicott -- "Execute Him on the Spot" The Fox Is Run to Earth -- The Firm Steps Forward -- Deerskins, Rum, and Land Indian Yeomen and Governor Sargent's Lost Cause -- Yankee Yeomen -- Jeffersonian Strategy and Jeffersonian Agents -- Jefferson and Wilkinson Wilkinson's Clients -- The Firm Adapts and Collects Wilkinson, Forbes, and Dearborn -- Debt for Land The Accounts of Silas Dinsmoor -- The Firm Wraps Things Up Andrew Jackson Takes Charge, with Some Help from Benjamin Hawkins -- Agents of the Master Organism: Assistants to the Plantation System -- Fulwar Skipwith in Context -- Skipwith the Jeffersonian Toussaint's Yeoman Republic -- The Career of Fulwar Skipwith The Quasi War and Spoliation -- James Monroe's First Mission to France Skipwith, the Livingstons, and Louisiana Cotton The Chancellor, Indolent Maroons, and Thomas Sumter Mister Sumter Is Shocked -- The Third Article -- Skipwith and the Floridas Consul Skipwith Goes to Jail -- Destiny by Intention -- The Adventures of George Mathews War, Commerce, and Race -- Assisters and Resisters The Green Flag of Florida -- Louisiana and Another Class of Virginians The Third Opportunity Reconsidered -- The Hillhouse Debates -- The Virginians of Louisiana Decide the Future of the Land Out of the Hills -- The Kemper Outrage -- 1809-1810 Skipwith and Randolph -- Complexities in Baton Rouge Skipwith at Bay -- Haiti Again -- Skipwith's Florida -- The Jeffersonian Legacy: The Civil War and the Homestead Act Statesmanship and Self-Deception -- Final Thoughts The Economics of Land Use -- Another Stream Jefferson, Madison, Adam Smith, and the Chesapeake Cities The Romans, Armed Occupation, and the Homestead Act Jefferson and the Ordinances of 1784 and 1787-89 -- Debt and Land Jefferson's Doctrine of Usufruct -- Tribes, Land, and Ireland Creeks, Seminoles, and Numbers -- The Livingstons and West Florida The Claiborne-Clark Duel -- Fulwar Skipwith and Andrew Jackson.
520 $aThomas 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 Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself.
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826$xViews on slavery.
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826$xInfluence.
650 0 $aLouisiana Purchase.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xExtension to the territories.
650 0 $aPlantation owners$zUnited States$xPolitical activity$xHistory.
650 0 $aFamily farms$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLand settlement$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1783.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865.
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