Jefferson"s Isaac: From Monticello to Petersburg

Цена 24.58 - 39.02 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781432770624

Брэнд Outskirts Press

Автор

Страниц 752

Год выпуска 2011

Jefferson"s Isaac: From Monticello to Petersburg tells the comprehensive story of Isaac (Granger) Jefferson. It significantly expands upon where the Memoirs of a Monticello Slave as verbalized by Isaac to Charles Campbell, in the 1840"s incomplete effort left off. The reader gains a new insight of the character of this gentleman some called Jefferson"s Isaac all his life. Others just called him Isaac, a few called him, "my husband," "dad," or "friend." Isaac was born a slave in 1775 at Thomas Jefferson"s Monticello. Jefferson"s Isaac permits the reader to trace his life from Monticello, to Philadelphia, and back to Monticello and Shadwell, to his marriage to Iris, their children, and their subsequent gift to Jefferson"s daughter, Maria and her husband John Wayles Eppes, and their time at Eppington, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Eppes was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth United States Congress from Virginia and the next three succeeding Congresses. Isaac Jefferson...