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The Men Who Came Together To Found The Independent United States Either Held Slaves Or Were Willing To Join Hands With Those Who Did. George Washington, Hero Of The Revolution, Was The Master Of Several Hundred Slaves. Thomas Jefferson, Author Of The Declaration Of Independence, Owned More Than 200 Men, Women, And Children While Eloquently Defending The Right To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness. In This Classic Work, Originally Published In 1976, Through A Meticulous History Of Virginia From Its Earliest Settlement Through The Seventeenth Century Boom In Tobacco, The Gradual Replacement Of Servitude With Slavery, And The Rise Of Republican Ideology, Historian Morgan Reveals The Deep And Interlocking Relationship Between These Seemingly Contradictory Ideas.--from Publisher Description. The Promised Land: Dreams Of Liberation ; The Lost Colony ; Idle Indian And Lazy Englishman ; The Jamestown Fiasco ; The Persistent Vision ; Boom -- A New Deal: Settling Down ; Living With Death ; The Trouble With Tobacco ; A Golden Fleecing -- The Volatile Society: The Losers ; Discontent ; Rebellion ; Status Quo -- Slavery And Freedom: Toward Slavery ; Toward Racism ; Toward Populism ; To

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Author

Edmund Sears Morgan

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393324945

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.09 / 5 (2,471 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14