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The Hemingses of Monticello
an American family
By Gordon-Reed, Annette
- ISBN
- 978-0-39306-477-3
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2008
This multigenerational saga traces mixed-race bloodlines that American history has long refused fully to acknowledge. Blending biography, genealogy, and history, Gordon-Reed (history, Rutgers Univ.; law, New York Law Sch.; Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy) brings to life the family from which Sally Hemings (1773-1835) came and the family that she and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) created. Sally bore five surviving children for...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
