This first-person account takes the reader to Jefferson’s mountaintop plantation and illuminates the profitable, coercive, and sometimes violent system of slavery at Monticello.

Written by Henry Wiencek, an independent historian and writer. He is the author of several books, including The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, which won National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999, and An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

Hardcover, 352 pages.