Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress by Billy L.

Description: Martha Jefferson Randolph by Billy L. Wayson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description These pages chronicle the account of a tearful child emerging from the grief of a young mothers death to seed a relationship that became the emotional sustenance of her fathers republican aspirations, and who grew to be an indispensible helpmeet and the competent mistress of a plantation household in its waning days. "I with pleasure take up my pen to express all my love to you, and my wishes once more to find myself in the only scene where...the sweeter affections of life have any exercise," Thomas Jefferson wrote to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. The two shared words of elation and rejection, despair and hope, engagement and loneliness. The underside of republican civic virtue is nakedly exposed in the story of Martha and Thomas Jeffersons deep, abiding relationship amid the throes of a nation being invented. Martha unselfishly provided the emotional sustenance for Thomas Jefferson as he unmoored his skiff from the safe harbor of ideology, casting it adrift into the uncharted seas of a new republic. This book is a story of a relationship--a social entity--not a full biography of Martha Jefferson. It describes milestones demarking many of the twists and turns encountered over the Jeffersons life courses. Among the most prominent events were the loss of a young mother and dearest wife; extended engagement with the political public sphere; defending family esteem in the face of a relatives sexual shenanigans; and navigating domestic discord among imprudent in-laws. This fascinating relationship is explored along six principal themes. Affection, Plantation Household, and Public Sphere are familiar topics drawn from the extensive cultural, social, and political historiography of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Three additional themes--Separation, Place, Debt--fill the pages of some 900 letters written by Martha, her father, her husband Thomas Mann Randolph, and others. Jeffersons exercise of republican civic virtue from 1790 to 1809 required repeated, extended, and unpredictable periods of living apart, which was especially painful after daughter and father had been together almost uninterrupted from 1782 to 1789. As a relationship, it is not unlike countless others, whether of notables or nobodies, but Martha Jeffersons unqualified affection for and lifelong commitment to the happiness of her father was a display of what may seem old-fashioned values of fidelity and sacrifice. In that sense, she can claim the honor and esteem her father assured would come from persevering and actively engaging with life. Author Biography Billy Wayson is an independent scholar who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (2008) and was a Fellow on two occasions at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. He brings a vast experience in business, government, and farming to the study of cultural, social, and community history from the mid-eighteenth century to the early antebellum period. His long-term project is systematically transcribing Jeffersons financial accounts into an analytical electronic format to map the flow of material culture through a community of plantations by tracing Jeffersons use of enslaved labor, business finances, and management practices. Details ISBN 1492125644 ISBN-13 9781492125648 Title Martha Jefferson Randolph Author Billy L. Wayson Format Paperback Year 2013 Pages 360 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform GE_Item_ID:76728149; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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