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Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery (Guest: Cara Rogers Stevens)
Manage episode 450027786 series 33809
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the evolution of Jefferson’s views on race and slavery, his legislative attempts to put the practice on a pathway to extinction in Virginia beginning in the colonial period, the antislavery intentions of his lone book, Notes on the State of Virginia, and how he tried to persuade younger slaveholders to embrace emancipation.
Get the book here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635979/
Show Notes:
The Imaginative Conservative: Bradley J. Birzer – “Redeeming (Mostly) Thomas Jefferson”
435 episodes
Manage episode 450027786 series 33809
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the evolution of Jefferson’s views on race and slavery, his legislative attempts to put the practice on a pathway to extinction in Virginia beginning in the colonial period, the antislavery intentions of his lone book, Notes on the State of Virginia, and how he tried to persuade younger slaveholders to embrace emancipation.
Get the book here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635979/
Show Notes:
The Imaginative Conservative: Bradley J. Birzer – “Redeeming (Mostly) Thomas Jefferson”
435 episodes
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