Notes on the State of Virginia

Notes on the State of Virginia

Notes on the State of Virginia

Notes on the State of Virginia

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Overview

Jefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101221631
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/01/1998
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was the third president of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most beloved and revered Founding Fathers of the United States of America.

Frank Shuffelton was an eminent scholar and critic of American literature. He taught at the University of Rochester for almost 40 years and served as a professor and chair of the Department of English. He published two books on Thomas Jefferson, including Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography, and edited Jefferson’s Notes on the State of VirginiaLetters of John and Abigail Adams, and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson. He died in 2010.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA

Appendices
No. I: Charles Thomson's Observations
No. II: Draught of the Constitution
No. III: Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
No. IV: Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family

Letters and Documents


EXPLANATORY AND TEXTUAL NOTES

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[Peden] has made available the authoritative edition of one of the most important books to emerge in eighteenth-century America. He has set forth the history of its reception and criticism in such a way as to establish his point that in the 'Notes on Virginia' Jefferson 'produced one of America's first permanent literary and intellectual landmarks.'—Virginia Quarterly Review

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