| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
798 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-753) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Hemings family.
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Hemings family. |
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Hemings, Sally -- Family.
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Hemings, Sally. |
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Families. |
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. |
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Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.
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Virginia -- Monticello. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Virginia -- Albemarle County. |
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African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.
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African American families. |
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African American families.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Biography. |
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780393064773 hardcover |
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0393064778 hardcover |
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