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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Hemings family.; Sally Hemings; Thomas Jefferson; Hemings; Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson; Sally Hemings |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Annette Gordon-Reed |
| ISBN: | 9780393064773 0393064778 |
| OCLC Number: | 225087744 |
| Awards: | National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2008 Pulitzer prize, History, 2009 |
| Description: | 798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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. |
| Responsibility: | Annette Gordon-Reed. |
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Tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America. This work traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings' siblings.
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The Hemingses of Monticello makes a powerful argument for the historical significance of the Hemings family not only for its engagement with a principal architect of the early Republic, but also for the ways the family embodies the complexities and contradictions of slavery in the United States. --James Smethurst Read more...
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