{"title":"Christa Dierksheide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChrista Dierksheide\u003c\/strong\u003e offers richly detailed narratives that explore critical moments in early American history. Her work delves into the complexities of figures like Thomas Jefferson, blending thorough research with engaging storytelling to bring historical events vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a thoughtful examination of the political and military challenges of the era, presented with clarity and insight. These books are ideal for those interested in history that connects personal experience with broader historical themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beyond-jefferson-by-christa-dierksheide-9780300226522","title":"Beyond Jefferson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the colour line\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration of Independence identified two core principles—independence and equality—that defined the American Revolution and the nation forged in 1776. Jefferson believed that each new generation of Americans would have to look to the \"experience of the present\" rather than the \"wisdom\" of the past to interpret and apply these principles in new and progressive ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistorian Christa Dierksheide examines the lives and experiences of a rising generation of Jefferson's descendants, Black and white, illuminating how they redefined equality and independence in a world that was half a century removed from the American Revolution. The Hemingses and Randolphs moved beyond Jefferson and his eighteenth-century world, leveraging their own ideas and experiences in nineteenth-century Britain, China, Cuba, Mexico, and the American West to claim independence and equal rights in an imperial and slaveholding republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000555487468,"sku":"9780300226522","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24262963482294.jpg?v=1763284401"},{"product_id":"jeffersons-wolf-by-nicholas-guyatt-9780674278325","title":"Jefferson's Wolf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American slavery: “We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.” Presenting abolition as both necessary and perilous, the remark has long been relied upon to explain an apparent paradox: despite publicly opposing slavery for four decades, Jefferson had made no progress toward Black freedom in his political career by the time he died in 1826. Nor had he done so in his expansive household, where he enslaved more than 600 people, including Sally Hemings and the four children he fathered with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChrista Dierksheide and Nicholas Guyatt argue that the key to understanding Jefferson’s antislavery position is his commitment to racial exclusion. Jefferson believed that the principal reason to abolish slavery was the threat of a massive slave revolt, but he viewed the presence of free Black people in the new nation as no less dangerous. To avert racial violence, Jefferson argued, the gradual abolition of slavery had to be paired with Black exile. Even when challenged by white and Black contemporaries with more expansive views of American belonging, Jefferson held fast to his vision for a white republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeither an egalitarian antiracist nor a proslavery apologist, Jefferson became the most influential advocate for racial separation in the early United States. Charting the evolution of his thought across the nation’s formative decades, \u003ci\u003eJefferson’s Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e is a surprising and provocative account of the problem of slavery in the founding era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650552807660,"sku":"9780674278325","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674278325-jefferson-s-wolf.jpg?v=1779326975"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/christa-dierksheide.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}