jefferson, we will probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president. it gave me a chance to explore, middle aged in the 1780 s, jefferson was going into his 40s. he almost did not travel to france at all, he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador for the united states and declined it both times. there were two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life. in the early 1780 s, that led him to take his trip. one was he was governor of virginia for two years during the revolutionary war. it wound up being a very difficult time, jefferson, he is a brilliant guy but he was not a good wartime governor. there were many challenges, he had trouble calling the militia. the british wound up over running the state. jefferson, himself, was almost captured at monticello. the dragoons charged up the mountain and came within a few minutes of catching him. jefferson left office and was fiercely criticized by this inciden
author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. and now for the men, event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today. he s the author of in pursuit of jefferson, traveling three years 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 live quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas jefferson s travel advice across europe. so he s going to tell you a little bore bit more about the book and resource wealth to having me here. derek baxter, everybody. great! well, thank you. thank you and c-span. thank you everybody for watching. so yes, this book is about, it s about me following jefferson s travels across europe. and israeli, 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 indepe
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
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