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008			181108s2008 nyu b 001 0ceng
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050	0	0	_aE332.74 _b.G67 2008
082	0	0	_a973.46 GOR
100	1		_aGordon-Reed, Annette
245	1	4	_aThe Hemingses of Monticello _b: an American family _c/ Annette Gordon-Reed
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew York, NY _b: W.W. Norton & Co. _c, 2008.
300			_a798 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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.
600	3	0	_aHemings family
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
650			_aSlaves _z-Virginia _v--Biography
650			_aAfrican American families _z-Virginia _z-Albemarle County
650			_aAfrican Americans _v--Biography
650		0	_aRacially mixed people- United States _x--Biography
651		0	_aMonticello (VA) _x--Biography
651		0	_aAlbermarle County (VA) _x--Biography
942			_cMO
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