Portrait by Artist to Come
John Hemings, brother of Sally Hemings, was a Monticello slave who specialized in carpentry and woodwork.
Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.
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| Jefferson, Thomas
The Federalists of the 1780s had a glimpse of what America was to become — a scrambling business society dominated by the pecuniary interests of ordinary people — and they did not like what they saw. This premonition of America’s future lay behind their sense of crisis and their horrified hyperbolic rhetoric. The wholesale pursuits of private interest and private luxury were, they thought, undermining America’s capacity for republican government. They designed the Constitution in order to save American republicanism from the deadly effects of the private pursuits of happiness.