"Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power Book

Gary Willis historical analysis knocks my pretty little historical framework socks off. (as he has before in Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, a rhetorical-historical analysis)

We have heard of the Washington and Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Yet Willis combos John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, amd Timothy Pickering. Timothy Pickering who we mostly know as a historical footnote. Wills says that while Adam's and Jefferson have weighty importance American history, no one has begun done to do justice to the role Pickering played as a Federalist working to hold back slave power. Oh may I read that historical analysis when it comes into being.

I read Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power as part of a reading survey of Thomas Jefferson with GR group Nonfiction Side Reads. I have left many comments and quotes there. As that group is a private group, that information can be accessed only by those friends. I will, as I often do, record some quotes in the next couple of days will be able to be seen by all interested.