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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780618485376
In 1800 Thomas Jefferson won the presidential election with
Electoral College votes derived from the three-fths representation
of slaves slaves who could not vote but were still partially
counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate
over Jefferson’s own slaves and his relationship with Sally
Hemings, Garry Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson’s
presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave
states remained a concern behind his most important policies and
decisions. Jefferson’s foil was Thomas Pickering, who along with
the Federalists fought the president and the institutions that
supported him. In an eye-opening, ingeniously argued expos, Wills
restores Pickering and his allies” dramatic struggle to our
understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the
evolution of our representative democracy.
Key to Brief Citations
Foreword: The Great Divide
Prologue: Coming to Terms with Jefferson
Introduction: The Three-Fifths Clause
I. BEFORE 1800
1. Picketing vs. Jefferson: The Northwest
2. Pickering vs. Jefferson: Toussaint
II. SECOND REVOLUTION”
3. 1800: Why Were Slaves Counted?
4. 1800: The Negro-Burr Election
5. 1801: Jefferson or Burr?
6. 1801 Aftermath: Turning Out the Federalists
Iii. PmKERING IN CONGRESS
7- 1803: The Twelfth Amendment
8. 1803: Louisiana
9. 1804: Pickering and Burr
1O. 1804–1805: Impeachments
11. 1808: Embargo
12. 1808: Pickering and Governor Sullivan
13. 1808: Pickering and J. Q. Adams
14. 1809-1815: Pickering and Madison
IV. THE PICKERING LEGACY
15. J. Q. Adams: The Federal (Slave) District
16. J. Q. Adams: Petition Battles
Epilogue: Farewell to Pickering
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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