Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics)

Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics)

by Jefferson, Thomas, Shuffelton, Frank

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A request in 1780 by the French delegation to the United States to learn more about the newly formed thirteen states of America stimulated in Jefferson, as he later described it, a "mysterious obligation for making me much better acquainted with my own country than I ever was before." Written during his first term as governor of Virginia, Notes on the State of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and an examination of the idea of freedom. With the same genius and clear, flexible prose style that informs the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson chronicles Virginia's natural, social, and political history.
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