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The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

by
John Chester Miller

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    Preface                                                     xi
			
 1  Slavery and the Declaration of Independence                  1
 2  Slavery and the Rights of Man                               12 
 3  Slavery and the Revolution in Virginia                      19
 4  Slavery and the Ordinance of 1784                           23       
 5  Slavery and the Decline of "Republican Virtue"              31
 6  Slavery and the Notes on Virginia                           38
 7  The Question of Racial Inferiority                          46   
 8  Blacks and Indians                                          60
 9  Jefferson and Black Intellectuals                           74
10  Blacks and Agriculture                                      79
11  Slavery and the Moral Sense                                 89
12  Blacks as Citizens                                          99
13  Jefferson as a Slavemaster                                 104
14  Slavery and the Treaty of 1783                             110
15  The Decline of the Antislavery Movement                    120
16  Jefferson and Gabriel's Conspiracy                         126
17  Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase                         130 
18  The Abolition of the Slave Trade                           142
19  Jefferson and James Callender: The Politics of
    Character Assassination                                    148
20  The Sally Hemings Story                                    162
21  Jefferson and Maria Cosway                                 177
22  Jefferson, Mrs. Walker, and the Freedom of the Press       195
23  Jefferson, John Marshall, and Slavery                      203
24  The Missouri Controversy                                   221
25  The Diffusion of Slavery                                   234
26  The Missouri Compromise                                    243
27  Slavery and "The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind"    253
28  "Beyond the Reach of Mixture"                              264
29  The Last Word from Monticello                              273

    Notes                                                      280
    Bibliography                                               298
    Index                                                      308



			

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