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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed follows four generations of the Hemings family from colonial Virginia through Thomas Jefferson's death. Legal records, plantation documents, letters, oral history, and close contextual reading restore enslaved family members as individuals who made choices within severe constraints. The book reshapes the history of Monticello by centering kinship, labor, freedom, and the unequal power surrounding the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date
- 2009-09-08
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 816
- ISBN
- 9780393337761
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1. HISTORY This Week — The Truth About Thomas Jefferson and Sally HemingsChecked
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