Unpublished Papers
Thomas Jefferson, Natural Law, and the Problem of Slavery during the Revolutionary Period, ExpressO (2008)
Thomas Jefferson’s one-time image as a principled opponent of slavery has been heavily criticized for...
Jefferson's Failed Anti-Slavery Proviso of 1784 and the Nascence of Free Soil Constitutionalism, ExpressO (2007)
Abstract: Despite his severe racism and inextricable personal commitments to slavery, Thomas Jefferson made profoundly...