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The Hemingses Of Monticello : An American Family

  • The Hemingses Of Monticello : An American Family

  • Attribution

    Annette Gordon-Reed

  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton & Co, 2008

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  • Description

    Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings’s siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson’s wife, Martha. Morgan, author of American Slavery “Thomas Jefferson often described his slaves at Monticello as ‘my family.’ Annette Gordon-Reed has taken that description seriously. Bringing the Hemings family out of the shadows and into vibrant life, Gordon-Reed restores them to their proper role at Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home. Jefferson’s Virginia?and Jefferson himself?will never look the same again.”?Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood and The Mind of Thomas Jefferson “Annette Gordon-Reed’s splendid achievement will have the last word on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, for one cannot imagine another historian matching her exhaustive research and interpretive balance.”?David Levering-Lewis, author of W. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson

  • Contents

    • I: Origins
    • Young Elizabeth’s world
    • John Wayles: the immigrant
    • The children of no one
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • The first Monticello
    • In the home of a revolutionary
    • II: The vaunted scene of Europe
    • "A particular purpose"
    • James Hemings: the provincial abroad
    • "Isabel or Sally will come"
    • Dr. Sutton
    • The rhythms of the city
    • The eve of revolution
    • "During that time"
    • Sarah Hemings: the fatherless girl in a patriarchal society
    • The teenagers and the woman
    • "His promises on which she implicitly relied"
    • "The treaty" and "did they love each other?"
    • The return
    • III: On the mountain
    • Hello and goodbye
    • Equilibrium
    • The brothers
    • Philadelphia
    • Exodus
    • The second Monticello
    • Into the future, echoes from the past
    • The ocean of life
    • The public world and the private domain
    • "Measurably happy": the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
    • Retirement for one, not for all
    • Endings and beginnings

  • ISBN

    • 9780393064773
    • 0393064778

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