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Jefferson on Race

A Reader

2026

Princeton University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

A room in Monticello.

Jefferson Divided

Though his writings grappled with the contradiction between bondage and liberty, Thomas Jefferson’s life was indebted to those he enslaved.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on December 1, 2025

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