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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed

By:

Gordon-Reed, Annette

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co. , 2008.Edition: 1st editionDescription: 798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780393064773

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DDC classification:

973.46 GOR

LOC classification:

E332.74 .G67 2008

Summary: "Pathbreaking... and very moving" (Edmund S. Morgan) - the multigenerational story of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. 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. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.46 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		065367

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Pathbreaking... and very moving" (Edmund S. Morgan) - the multigenerational story of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. 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. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.

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