Nelson, Louis / Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University

Louis Nelson is Vice Provost for Academic Outreach and Professor of Architectural History a the University of Virginia.

A model of engaged and compassionate scholarship, drawing upon prodigious research and ingenious methods, Educated in Tyranny is essential to understanding the University of Virginia. This is a book written by people who care deeply about the University, who are devoted to telling its story honestly and fully. --Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond, author of The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America