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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
Title:
The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
Author:
Gordon-Reed, Annette.
ISBN:
9780393064773

9780393337761
Personal Author:
Gordon-Reed, Annette.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

W.W. Norton & Co.,

2008.
Physical Description:
798 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Hemings family from early eighteenth-century Virginia to their dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826, and describes their family ties to the third president against a backdrop of Revolutionary America and the French Revolution.
Personal Subject:
Hemings family.

Hemings, Sally-Family.

Hemings, Sally.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826-Family.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Subject Term:
Families.

Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Racially mixed people.

African Americans -- Biography.

African American families.

African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.

Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Geographic Term:
Virginia -- Albemarle County.

Virginia -- Monticello.

United States.

Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.

Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Publication Date:
2008