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Mason, George. Remarks at the Federal Convention, August 22, 1787, in Madison’s Notes of Debates. https://csac.history.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/281/2025/05/2.-mason-22-august-1787.pdf

Tobias Lear, Letters and Recollections of George Washington, (New York, 1906), 38; GW to William Pearce, 22 March 22, 1795, MTVL.
https://washingtonpapers.org/resources/articles/species/

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth. Remarks at the Federal Convention, August 22, 1787, in Madison’s Notes of Debates.
https://csac.history.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/281/2025/05/4.-pinckney-22-aug-1787.pdf

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“That Species of Property”: Washington’s Role in the Controversy Over Slavery

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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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Secondary Sources

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
https://archive.org/details/problemofslavery0000unse_x8g4

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.” New Left Review 181 (May–June 1990): 95–118.
https://files.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/13230/files/2020/08/Fields_Slavery-Race-and-Ideology.pdf

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. 3rd ed. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. https://archive.org/details/slaveryfoundersr0000fink

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Slavery and the founders : race and liberty in the age of Jefferson : Finkelman, Paul, 1949- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xi, 227 pages ; 24 cm

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The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823 : Davis, David Brion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

576 pages ; 25 cm

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

@Deglassco@mastodon.social 7 hours ago

More Secondary Sources

Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
https://archive.org/details/hemingsesofmonti0000gord

Gordon-Reed, Annette, ed. Jefferson on Race: A Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026.

Gordon-Reed, Annette, and Peter S. Onuf. “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. New York: Liveright, 2016.

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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family : Gordon-Reed, Annette : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

798 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

@Deglassco@mastodon.social 7 hours ago

Still More Secondary Sources

Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.
https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-BLL-054

Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977.
https://archive.org/details/wolfbyearsthomas0000mill

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
https://archive.org/details/americanslaverya0000unse

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American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia : Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

x, 454 p. : 24 cm

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The wolf by the ears : Thomas Jefferson and slavery : Miller, John Chester, 1907- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

@Deglassco@mastodon.social 7 hours ago

Final Secondary Sources

Smith, Rogers M. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History. New Haven: Univ Press, 1997.
https://archive.org/details/civicidealsconfl0000smit

Waldstreicher, David. Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009.
https://archive.org/details/slaverysconstitu00wald

Van Cleve, George William. A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
https://archive.org/details/slaveholdersunio0000vanc

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A slaveholders' union : slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic : Van Cleve, George, 1952- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Civic ideals : conflicting visions of citizenship in U.S. history : Smith, Rogers M., 1953- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

x, 719 p. ; 25 cm

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