Thomas Jefferson's nationalist vision of New England and the War of 1812.
From: The Historian
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Date: 3/22/2007
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Author: Scherr, Arthur
UNTIL RECENTLY, Thomas Jefferson's nineteenth-century image as a herald of freedom and Union embodying "the definitions and axioms of free society," as Abraham Lincoln put it, seemed secure. (1) By contrast, many current historians adopt an image of Jefferson as an ethnocentric Virginian supporter of states' rights without a developed concept of nationhood. They argue that his proslavery, agrarian bias, particularly in such matters as his presidency's Louisiana Purchase and Embargo ...
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