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The Hemingses of Monticello an American family

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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Main Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Hemings family.
Hemings, Sally > Family.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Family.
Monticello (Va.)
Slaves > Biography.
African American families.
African Americans > Biography.
Racially mixed people > Biography.
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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.
Physical Description:798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 737-753) and index.
ISBN:9780393064773 (hardcover)
0393064778 (hardcover)
9780393337761
0393337766
Author Notes:Annette Gordon-Reed grew up in east Texas. She majored in History at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1981, and then attended Harvard Law School. Gordon-Reed worked as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and was Counsel to the New York City Board of Corrections before becoming a professor of law at New York Law School in 1992.

Gordon-Reed wrote the book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy after first becoming interested in the president as a child. She co-authored Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir and wrote Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. Gordon-Reed is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Hemingses of Monticello.

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