No Founding Father was more personally or controversially tied to race and slavery than Thomas Jefferson. In the new book Jefferson on Race, preeminent American historian Annette Gordon-Reed collects the founding father鈥檚 most revealing writings on African Americans, slavery, and Indigenous peoples, drawing from public and private papers, letters, and plantation records鈥攁s well as accounts by contemporaries, including those he enslaved. Please join the New York Public Library in welcoming Annette Gordon-Reed, editor of Jefferson on Race.