Jefferson's Wolf A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery Gord Hill By: Florencia Etcheves

By: Florencia Etcheves

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Jefferson's Wolf A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery Gord Hill By: Florencia EtchevesBy: Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt Published by Harvard University Press, 2026 05 05 A 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. Toward 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