Baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side
are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas s jefferson s travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. great. well, thank you. thank you scuppernong and and c-span. thank you everybody for watching. so. so yes, this book is about it s about me following jefferson s travels across europe and it s really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don t often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this ga
watching. so. so yes, this book is about it s about me following jefferson s travels across europe and it s really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don t often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. it was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. so jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didn t travel to france at all. he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the united states and a declined it both times. but there were there were two events two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life in the early 1780s that led him to take this trip. so one was he was governor of virginia for two years during the revolutionary war and it wound up being a very
cruel master who forbade him to read who whipped him, you know, it was a very is a time of suffering for that for this young man who left monticello. he tried to escape and was caught and brought back. eventually joseph foster joseph fawcett rather with the help of some friends was able to buy his son s freedom and they all the whole family moved to ohio peter fawcett became a reverend. he became a caterer had a successful business. he worked with the underground railroad. and years later it was in 1900. he was 85 at this time. he was invited back to monticello. so by this time, you know, the jeffersons had long since lost the house the levy family a jewish family. that was very inspired by jefferson s commitment to religious freedom. they had bought it and they welcomed peter fawcett back. back home, so he had left auctioned off from the west lawn of monticello, and he walked back in as an old man through the front steps. so so the you know, the journeys brought me to many d
joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas s jefferson s travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. great. well, thank you. thank you scuppernong and and c-span. thank you everybody for watching. so. so yes, this book is about it s about me following jefferson s travels across europe and it s really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don t often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. it was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. so jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he a