Notes
1. Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. New
York, 1962.
2.
Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, Ithaca, 1977.
3. For further reading on women and their role in Revolutionary society, read Linda K.
Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary
America, Chapel Hill,
1980.
4. To Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819 in Paul Leicester, editor. The Works of
Thomas Jefferson, XII, 136. New York, 1904.
5. The Newt Gingrich-led Republicans' exhortations and rhetoric following the
November, 1994 Congressional elections, which unseated the long-standing Democrat
majority in the House, are much like--it seems no accident--the populist rhetoric of
Jefferson's Republicans.
6. Adams, Henry. History of the United States during the Administrations of
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, II, p. 90-91. New York, 1889.
7. Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party
Ideology. Ithaca, 1978.
8. For further reading on this topic, see David Brion Davis, The Problem of
Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1770- 1823, Ithaca, 1975 and
Leonard Levy, Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side, revised edition,
New York, 1973.
9.
Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, p. 29.
New York, 1962.
10.
Ibid, p. 35.
11.
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1770-1823. Ithaca, 1975.
12.
Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. New York, 1962.
13.
In the past thirty years, historians have begun
to explore the question of Jefferson's views on
race--initiated in the antebellum years--with
renewed vigor.
14.
Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. New York, 1962.