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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Gordon-Reed, Annette.     Subjects     Hemings family.     Hemings, Sally -- Family.     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.     Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.     Slaves -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.     African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.     African American families.     African Americans -- Biography.     Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.     Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gordon-Reed, Annette.       by title:      The Hemingses of Mon...       by call number:      973.46 GOR      973.4/60922 B     Search the Web     Gordon-Reed, Annette.     Hemings family.     Hemings, Sally -- Family.     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.     Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.     Slaves -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.     African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.     African American families.     African Americans -- Biography.     Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.     Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / by Gordon-Reed, Annette. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Call #: 973.46 GOR Collection:  New Books - Nonfiction Description:  798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 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 -- "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. Plot:  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. Holds:  2 Available Copies:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   TSCPL Library New Books - Nonfiction 973.46 GOR Checked out 12/09/2009 Add Copy to MyList TSCPL Library New Books - Nonfiction 973.46 GOR Long Overdue 08/30/2009 Add Copy to MyList TSCPL Library New Books - Nonfiction 973.46 GOR Checked out 12/07/2009 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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