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Negro president : Jefferson and the slave power

Title: Negro president : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
Author: Wills, Garry, 1934-
Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
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xiv, 274 p. : ports.; 22 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-258) and index.

Contents

Pickering vs. Jefferson: the Northwest -- Pickering vs. Jefferson: Toussaint -- 1800: why were slaves counted? -- 1800: the Negro-Burr election -- 1801: Jefferson or Burr? -- 1801 aftermath: turning out the federalists -- 1803: the twelfth amendment -- 1803: Louisiana -- 1804: Pickering and Burr -- 1804-1805: impeachments -- 1808: embargo -- 1808: Pickering and Governor Sullivan -- 1808: Pickering and J.Q. Adams -- 1809-1915: Pickering and Madison -- J.Q. Adams: the federal (slave) district -- J.Q. Adams: petition battles.

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