ePub Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart in History

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Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War; a prominent New York politician; and vice president of the United States; Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history; Burr was also a man before his time—a proponent of equality between the sexes well over a century before women were able to vote in the US. Through Burr's extensive; witty correspondence with his daughter Theodosia; Brands traces the arc of a scandalous political career and the early years of American politics. The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr not only dramatizes through their words his eventful life; it also tells a touching story of a father's love for his exceptional daughter; which endured through public shame; bankruptcy; and exile; and outlasted even Theodosia's tragic disappearance at sea.A Paperback Original