"The Greatest of All Gamblers is the Farmer": Thomas Jefferson's Republican Conception of White Poverty in the Early Republic.
This article examines Thomas Jefferson's perspective on poverty in early America. Jefferson believed that poverty was a problem that needed to be addressed and that capable individuals had a responsibility to assist the needy. However, his definition of poverty was limited to white male laborers, ex...
| Published in: | Virginia Magazine of History & Biography Vol. 132; no. 2; pp. 75 - 107 |
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Virginia Historical Society
2024
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