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Peter Field Jefferson: Dark Prince of Scottsville follows the rise and fall of Randolph Jefferson’s most successful son. Nephew to President Thomas Jefferson, Peter Field proved that at least one member of the family had a head for business. The story of his life parallels that of the changing cultural landscape of the James River’s Horseshoe Bend across seven decades—rising from virtual frontier to the establishment of Scottsville in Albemarle County, through the building of the James River and Kanawha Canal, and culminating in the early months of the Civil War. Jefferson’s success as a self-made man is tainted with great personal loss, making his story a distinctively American tragedy.
Lost Jeffersons is a collection of essays which follows descendants of Randolph Jefferson and their kinfolk. Their fates reveal, in part, the genetic decline of one branch of the Jefferson family. A microcosm of Virginia’s gentry, multiple generations of cousin marriage resulted in a concentration of undesirable traits—including alcoholism, idiocy, and insanity—compromising individuals who might otherwise have led productive and useful lives.
Acerca del autor: After earning her doctorate in cinema studies at the University of Southern California, Joanne Yeck taught and wrote about film history for many years. While homeschooling her daughter, Joanne published several articles about the family's particular style of interest-driven education. Since 1995, her fascination with Virginia history has become a full-time occupation. Years of research exploring her mother's deep Virginia roots resulted in three volumes about the people and places of Buckingham County, including a biography of President Thomas Jefferson's only brother, Randolph, whose plantation, Snowden, was located in northern Buckingham at the Horseshoe Bend of the James River. In 2010, she was awarded a Jefferson Fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies which supported her research for The Jefferson Brothers (2012) as well as her current book, Peter Field Jefferson: Dark Prince of Scottsville & Lost Jeffersons. She writes a monthly column for the Buckingham Beacon and, since 2012, her blog, Slate River Ramblings, has attracted a growing community of genealogists and history buffs interested in Buckingham County and its environs. When not exploring the back roads of Virginia, she lives in Kettering, Ohio. Visit her online at joannelyeck.com and slateriverramblings.com.
Título: Peter Field Jefferson and Lost Jeffersons
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