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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family , from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson , their master and the father of Sally Hemings ' children.
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Sep 8, 2009 · "― James Smethurst, The Boston Globe " The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed, a historian and law professor, is a doorstop corrective to early American history, painting a composite portrait of a family that stood at the wellspring of the Jefferson, slave Sally Hemings, their children and kin fascinate and surprise.
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Jan 1, 2008 · 6,487 ratings1,016 reviews. 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 ...
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As The Hemingses of Monticello makes vividly clear, Monticello can no longer be known only as the home of a remarkable American leader, the author of the Declaration of Independence; nor can the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president have been expunged from history until very recently, be left out of the telling ...
Sep 8, 2009 · 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.
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Sep 23, 2020 · In The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Gordon-Reed expands her work into a biography of an entire family in the era of the American Revolution. A key figure in this story is Elizabeth Hemings, Sally Hemings’s mother. In this excerpt, Gordon-Reed considers what the American Revolution meant to Elizabeth, Sally, and Sally’s ...
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Aug 25, 2009 · —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history ...
