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    Those Who Labor for My Happiness
    Those Who Labor for My Happiness ab 26.99 € als Taschenbuch: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Hidden Lives
    Hidden Lives ab 25.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 927min
    National Book Award FinalistThis searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels". In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks and to capture and burn Washington, D.C. Tidewater masters had long dreaded their slaves as "an internal enemy." By mobilizing that enemy, the war ignited the deepest fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. It also alienated Virginians from a national government that had neglected their defense. Instead they turned south, their interests aligning more and more with their section. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson observed of sectionalism: "Like a firebell in the night [it] awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the union." The notes of alarm in Jefferson's comment speak of the fear aroused by the recent crisis over slavery in his home state. His vision of a cataclysm to come proved prescient. Jefferson's startling observation registered a turn in the nation’s course, a pivot from the national purpose of the founding toward the threat of disunion. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016864/bk_adbl_016864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Jefferson Bible , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min
    In the early 19th century, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson's lifetime but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early 20th century. The original bound manuscript, popularly referred to as The Jefferson Bible, is held by the United States National Museum in Washington. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mel Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001776/bk_tant_001776_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Lesson Before Dying, Hörbuch, Digital, 83min
    Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his hometown after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate. Language: English. Narrator: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000131/pf_latw_000131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy
    Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy ab 97.49 € als epub eBook: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Philosophie,
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    God on the Grounds
    God on the Grounds ab 32.49 € als epub eBook: A History of Religion at Thomas Jefferson's University. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Religion,
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    The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind
    The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind ab 33.99 € als epub eBook: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1023min
    The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters — two White and free, one Black and enslaved — and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America Finalist for the George Washington Prize“Beautifully written.... To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.” (The New York Times Book Review)Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery — apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today — and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation.... Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.” (USA Today)“A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era Am ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005455/bk_rand_005455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Unreconciled , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min
    A caliph rules America after the Christian holocaust. Denisa Graceon, archeologist, is employed by an enigmatic cardinal to locate Christian relics there. Beginning her search at the University of Virginia, where Jefferson's dream has become an oppressive nightmare, Denisa meets the imam's debonair son, who abhorring the radical Islamic vision, leads a clandestine rebellion and, hypnotized by her intellectual exuberance, aids her quest. Searching deep in Appalachias wilderness, she discovers the "Unreconciled", the last American Christians. Immersed in Christianity, she is born again and becomes enamored by Hawkeye, the swarthy Adonis, who guards the very relic she had come to steal. When she learns the Caliph plans to annihilate them, she realizes only she can save them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon P Rainsford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139456/bk_acx0_139456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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