Negro president : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
2005
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Author
Title
Negro president : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Call Number
E332.2 .W57 2005
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
ISBN
9780618485376 (pbk.)
0618485376 (pbk.)
0618343989
9780618343980
0618485376 (pbk.)
0618343989
9780618343980
Description
xviii, 274 pages : portraits ; 20 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)62511870
Summary
"In "Negro President" historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune)."
"In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions." "Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy."--Jacket.
"In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions." "Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy."--Jacket.
Note
"A Mariner book."
"In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions." "Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy."--Jacket.
"In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions." "Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword : the great divide
Prologue : coming to terms with Jefferson
Introduction : the three-fifths clause
1
I.
Before 1800
15
1.
Pickering vs. Jefferson : the Northwest
18
2.
Pickering vs. Jefferson : Toussaint
33
II.
"Second revolution"
47
3.
1800 : why were slaves counted?
50
4.
1800 : the Negro-Burr election
62
5.
1801 : Jefferson or Burr?
73
6.
1801 aftermath : turning out the Federalists
90
III.
Pickering in Congress
103
7.
1803 : the Twelfth Amendment
106
8.
1803 : Louisiana
114
9.
1804 : Pickering and Burr
127
10.
1804-1805 : impeachments
140
11.
1808 : Embargo
147
12.
1808 : Pickering and Governor Sullivan
159
13.
1808 : Pickering and J. Q. Adams
171
14.
1809-1815 : Pickering and Madison
182
IV.
Pickering legacy
195
15.
J. Q. Adams : the federal (slave) district
200
16.
J. Q. Adams : petition battles
214
Epilogue : farewell to Pickering
226