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3-26-18

Review of John B. Boles’s “Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty”

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Jefferson was the “most quintessential American Founder of them all.”

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

6-26-17

John B. Boles wants students to know more about Jefferson than that he was a slaveholder

In a new biography he says the Virginian was a leading liberal who eased the path of manumission.

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Review of John B. Boles’s “Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty”

by M. Andrew Holowchak

John B. Boles wants students to know more about Jefferson than that he was a slaveholder