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Binder, Frederick M. “Thomas Jefferson and the Negro.” The Color Problem in Early National America as Viewed by John Adams, Jefferson and Jackson. Paris: Mouton, 1968. 48-81.
Burstein, Andrew. "The Continuing Debate: Jefferson and Slavery." Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
Cohen, William. “Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Slavery.” Journal of American History 56.3 (1969): 503-26.
Dain, Bruce. “The Face of Nature.” A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. 1-39.
Davis, D. B. Was Jefferson an Authentic Enemy of Slavery? Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
Dierksheide, Christa. “‘The great improvement and civilization of that race’: Jefferson and the ‘Amelioration’ of Slavery, ca. 1770-1826.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6.1 (2008): 165-97.
Finkelman, Paul. "Jefferson and Slavery: Treason against the Hopes of the World." Jeffersonian Legacies. Ed. Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1993. 181-221.
Finkelman, Paul. "Thomas Jefferson and Antislavery: The Myth Goes On." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102.2 (1994): 193-228.
Finkelman, Paul. “Thomas Jefferson and Slavery I: ‘Treason against the Hopes of the World.’” Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 105-37.
Finkelman, Paul. “Thomas Jefferson and Slavery II: Historians and Myths.” Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 138-67.
Helo, Ari, and Peter Onuf. “Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery.” William and Mary Quarterly 60.3 (2003).
Holgersson-Shorter, Helena. “Authority’s Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy.” The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 51-66.
Jordan, Winthrop D. "Thomas Jefferson: Self over Society." White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1968. 429-81.
Kalinowsk, Franklin. "’I Tremble for My Country’: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry.” Journal of American History 94.3 (2007): 917-18.
Magnis, Nicholas E. “Thomas Jefferson and Slavery: An Analysis of His Racist Thinking as Revealed by His Writings and Political Behavior.” Journal of Black Studies 29.4 (1999):491-509.
McColley, Robert. “Gentleman’s Opinions on Race and Freedom.” Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1964. 114-40.
McGarvie, Mark D. “’In Perfect Accordance with His Character’: Thomas Jefferson, Slavery and the Law.” Indiana Magazine of History 95.2 (1999): 142-177.
Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977. Chapters 6 and 7.
Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977. Chapters 11 and 12.
Onuf, Peter S. “Every Generation Is an ‘Independent Nation’: Colonization, Miscegenation, and the Fate of Jefferson’s Children.” William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, 57.1 (2000): 153-70.
Onuf, Peter S. “Thomas Jefferson, Race, and National Identity.” The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2007. 205-12
Onuf, Peter S. “To Declare Them a Free and Independent People.” Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000. 147-228.
Pybus, Cassandra. "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery." A Companion to Thomas Jefferson. Ed. Francis D. Cogliano. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 271-83.
White, Andrew D. "Jefferson and Slavery." Atlantic Monthly 9 (January 1862): 29-40.
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Wiencek, Henry. Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012.