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Jefferson from the "first" papers in 1831" to all published collections to the latest from Princeton & Monticello and commentaries along the way. A collection on enslavement of over 100 volumes, and for the current project economic history from the colonial to late antebellum period. (The books on agriculture have a lonely existence in an outlying barn.

An independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Virginia, earned in my sixty decade. A prior life as dairy farmer, management consultant, founder of a policy analysis firm, and executive in the U. S. Justice Department. My first history authorship was "Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress"--a daughter-father story. My current project has a preliminary title of "'So long as sixty years': Thomas Jefferson's Financial Life."