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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780393064773
  • ISBN: 0393064778
  • ISBN: 9780393337761
  • ISBN: 0393337766
  • Physical Description: print
    798 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Genealogical charts on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-753) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Hemings family
Jefferson family
Hemings, Sally Family
Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Family
Enslaved persons Virginia Albemarle County Biography
African American families Virginia Albemarle County
African American families
African Americans Biography
Racially mixed people United States Biography
Monticello (Va.) Biography
Albemarle County (Va.) Biography
Genre: Family histories.
Biographies.

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  • 54 of 59 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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