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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings an American controversy

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Main Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with women.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with slaves.
Hemings, Sally.
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Physical Description:p. cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0813916984 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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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