Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

Author: Henry Wiencek
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Used
Pages: 352.0
Published: Oct 16, 2012

Wiencek’s investigative work dismantles the myth of the idealized Founding Father, revealing how Thomas Jefferson despite his early anti-slavery rhetoric relied heavily on enslaved labor to sustain Monticello and his financial standing. Drawing from archaeological discoveries and overlooked plantation records, the book exposes how Jefferson profited from the institution of slavery through what Wiencek calls “silent profits”