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**One hundred years in the life of a founding father’s 5,000 acre “retreat”** “Poplar Forest embodies the culmination of Jefferson’s vision of the American agricultural ideal. This highly readable volume introduces us to the people, objects, and landscapes of Poplar Forest in the tumultuous period between the Revolution and the Civil War. __Jefferson’s Poplar Forest__ presents a remarkably multidimensional portrait of the estate as a personal retreat, a designed landscape, a plantation, and a home and workplace for enslaved African American families.”—Lu Ann De Cunzo, University of Delaware “With their productive commitments to long-term and interdisciplinary research, the contributors draw upon the traditional themes of slavery and plantation landscapes but imbue those with new energy through incorporating the issues of ecology, identity, agency, and consumerism.”­—Douglas Sanford, University of Mary Washington Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hoards of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello. __Jefferson’s Poplar Forest

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Author

Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813043562

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Science