NEGRO PRESIDENT"; Jefferson and the slave power
first edition
2003 · Boston
by WILLS, Garry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First printing. 8vo, pp. xiv, 274. Notes, index. Illustrated with portraits of Jefferson and Pickering. As new. How Jefferson was elected by partially counting slaves as citizens, how the power of the slave states determined policy and even the location of the nation's capital, and the role of Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, one of Jefferson's critics. (Inventory #: 41884)