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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family Annette Gordon-Reed
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon-Reed, Annette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hemings family.
- Hemings, Sally--Family.
- Hemings, Sally.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Family.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Monticello (Va.)--Biography.
- Monticello (Va.).
- Albemarle County (Va.)--Biography.
- Albemarle County (Va.).
- Enslaved persons--Virginia--Albemarle County--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- African American families--Virginia--Albemarle County.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Physical Description:
- 798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 737-753) and index.
- National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2008
- Pulitzer prize, History, 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780393064773
- 0393064778
- OCLC:
- 225087744
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