Taylor, Alan
Thomas Jefferson's Education
- ISBN 13:
- 9780393358575
- author:
- Taylor, Alan
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- WW Norton & Co
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions:
- 21.1 x 14 x 2.8 centimeters (0.3
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Education, Higher,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Thomas Jefferson's Education by Alan Taylor offers a thought-provoking study of the complexities surrounding education and slavery in 19th-century Virginia. This absorbing history reveals how Thomas Jefferson's campaign to save his state through education was deeply entwined with the social fabric of planters, enslaved black families, and a code of male honor. Jefferson's efforts to establish an elite university were driven by his desire to democratize the state and eventually rid it of slavery. However, the university's students ultimately failed to live up to his ideals, embracing the traditional vices of the Virginia gentry instead. The result was a institution born with the flaws of a slave society. This beautifully written history provides an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson, set against the backdrop of a declining social order and the tragic consequences that followed.
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