The Jeffersons at Shadwell (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Автор:Susan Kern Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 320 ISBN: 0300187432 Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves. Located in present-day Albemarle County, Virginia, Shadwell was at the time considered the frontier. However Kern demonstrates that Shadwell was no crude log cabin; it was, in fact, a well appointed gentry's house full of fashionable goods, located at the centre of a substantial plantation. Kern's scholarship offers new views of the family's role in settling Virginia as well as new perspectives on Thomas Jefferson himself. By examining a variety of sources, including account books, diaries, and letters, Kern recreates in rich detail the daily lives of the Jeffersons at Shadwell - from Jane Jefferson's cultivation of a learned and cultured household to Peter Jefferson's extensive business network and oversight of a thriving plantation....
