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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 an. .

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. - Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed.

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. It is based on Gordon-Reed's study of legal records, diaries, farm books, letters, wills, newspapers, archives, and oral history.

Annette Gordon-Reed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the Jeffersons, over three .

Annette Gordon-Reed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the Jeffersons, over three generations. Youth in females has attracted men in all eras across all cultures ).

Annette Gordon-Reed, author of "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings" profiles the lineage of the Hemings family. The Hemingses of Monticello" has been nominated for the 2008 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Ms. Gordon-Reed details numerous family members that preceded the better known Sally Hemings whom she recalls had a thirty-eight year relationship with Thomas Jefferson and bore seven of his children. This event took place at Thomas Jefferson's Monitcello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

So begins The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed’s riveting history of the Hemings family, whose story .

Gordon-Reed, author of the highly acclaimed historiography Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, unearths startling new information about the Hemingses, Jefferson, and his white family.

Annette Gordon-Reed's "riveting history" of the Hemings family, whose .

Although the book presents the most detailed and richly drawn portrait ever written of Sarah Hemings, better known by her nickname Sally, who bore seven children by Jefferson over the course of their thirty-eight-year liaison, The Hemingses of Monticello tells more than the story of her life with Jefferson and their children

Annette Gordon-Reed gives us a scholarly and extensive effort in her latest book, The Hemings of Monticello. I think anybody interested in Jefferson or this period in American history owes it to themselves to read both books.

Annette Gordon-Reed gives us a scholarly and extensive effort in her latest book, The Hemings of Monticello. This book is not just about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, but much, much more. Gordon-Reed starts with the Hemings matriarch. Elizabeth Hemings, the mother of Sally, had six children by John Wayles. Wayles was the father of Thomas Jefferson's wife, Martha. The first is a critical dissection of the way historians had dealt (or avoided dealing) with the rumored Jefferson-Hemings connection, and is a masterpiece of investigative history.

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