"First published in 1977 by the Free Press"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-307) and index.
Slavery and the Declaration of Independence -- Slavery and the Rights of man -- Slavery and the Revolution in Virginia -- Slavery and the Ordinance of 1784 -- Slavery and the decline of "republican virtue" -- Slavery and the Notes on Virginia -- The question of racial inferiority -- Blacks and Indianas -- Jefferson and Black intellectuals -- Blacks and agriculture -- Slavery and the moral sense -- Blacks as citizens -- Jefferson as a slavemaster -- Slavery and the Treaty of 1783 -- The decline of the antislavery movement -- Jefferson and Gabriel's Conspiracy -- Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase -- The abolition of the slave trade -- Jefferson and James Callender : the politics of character assassination -- The Sally Hemings story -- Jefferson and Maria Cosway -- Jefferson, Mrs. Walker, and the freedom of the press -- Jefferson, John Marshall, and slavery -- The Missouri controversy -- The diffusion of slavery -- The Missouri Compromise -- Slavery and "the illimitable freedom of the human mind" -- "Beyond the reach of mixture" -- The last word from Monticello