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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Physical Description
798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Subjects
- Enslaved persons > Virginia > Albemarle County > Biography
- African American families > Virginia > Albemarle County.
- African American families.
- African Americans > Biography.
- Racially mixed people > United States > Biography
- Monticello (Va.) > Biography.
- Albemarle County (Va.) > Biography.
- Hemings family.
- Hemings, Sally > Family.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Family.