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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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
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- "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.
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