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by Garry Wills (Author) "TIMOTHY PICKERING has been no favorite of American historians, who only dimly remembered him - as an enforcer of the Sedition Act and John Adams's..." (more)
Key Phrases: federal ratio, slave count, northern secession, New York, United States, New England (more...)
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Garry Wills' "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, despite its title, is not a profile of the Jefferson Presidency. Rather, the book offers a richly detailed study of the United States' tragic constitutional bargain with slavery, and meanders through the lives of several key figures in antebellum American history along the way.

While Thomas Jefferson does play a significant role in Wills' book, the real heroes are the relatively unknown abolitionist Timothy Pickering and, to a l