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"""This is a magnificent achievement both in the fields of the history of the Early Republic and in Jefferson studies. Cara Rogers Stevens’s understanding of Jefferson and his times is exceptionally clear-minded, while based on a huge amount of innovative work with actual source material. I was particularly delighted by an exceptionally comprehensive and important account of Jefferson’s correspondence with William Short and Edward Bancroft. As a historian Rogers Stevens is meticulous, profound, pointed, and intelligent—the kind we need more of.""—Ari Helo, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder ""Many scholars have been skeptical about the depth and strength of Thomas Jefferson’s opposition to slavery. In Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery, Cara Rogers Stevens challenges this orthodoxy. Rogers Stevens, believing that we should take Jefferson at his word, offers a close reading of The Notes on the State of Virginia, one of Jefferson’s most important and controversial works, to argue that Jefferson’s antislavery thinking was more sincere, deeply rooted, and influential than many scholars have appreciated. Students of Jefferson and slavery will need to engage with this original, provocative, and well-written study.""—Frank Cogliano, author of Revolutionary America, 1763–1815: A Political History and Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy"

""This is a magnificent achievement both in the fields of the history of the Early Republic and in Jefferson studies. Cara Rogers Stevens’s understanding of Jefferson and his times is exceptionally clear-minded, while based on a huge amount of innovative work with actual source material. I was particularly delighted by an exceptionally comprehensive and important account of Jefferson’s correspondence with William Short and Edward Bancroft. As a historian Rogers Stevens is meticulous, profound, pointed, and intelligent—the kind we need more of.""—Ari Helo, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder ""Many scholars have been skeptical about the depth and strength of Thomas Jefferson’s opposition to slavery. In Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery, Cara Rogers Stevens challenges this orthodoxy. Rogers Stevens, believing that we should take Jefferson at his word, offers a close reading of The Notes on the State of Virginia, one of Jefferson’s most important and controversial works, to argue that Jefferson’s antislavery thinking was more sincere, deeply rooted, and influential than many scholars have appreciated. Students of Jefferson and slavery will need to engage with this original, provocative, and well-written study.""—Frank Cogliano, author of Revolutionary America, 1763–1815: A Political History and Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

"""This is a magnificent achievement both in the fields of the history of the early republic and in Jefferson studies. Cara Rogers's understanding of Jefferson and his times is exceptionally clear-minded, while based on a huge amount of innovative work with actual source material. I was particularly delighted by Rogers's exceptionally comprehensive and important account of Jefferson's correspondence with William Short and Edward Bancroft. As a historian Rogers is meticulous, profound, pointed, and intelligent--the kind we need more of.""--Ari Helo, author of Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder ""Many scholars have been skeptical about the depth and strength of Thomas Jefferson's opposition to slavery. In These People are to be Free, Cara J. Rogers challenges this orthodoxy. Rogers, believing that we should take Jefferson at his word, offers a close reading of The Notes on the State of Virginia, one of Jefferson's most important and controversial works, to argue that Jefferson's anti-slavery thinking was more sincere, deeply rooted, and influential than many scholars have appreciated. Students of Jefferson and slavery will need to engage with this original, provocative, and well-written study.""--Frank Cogliano, professor of history, University of Edinburgh, and author of Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History and Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy"

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Cara Rogers Stevens is an associate professor of history at Ashland University.

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