The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

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. So begins The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work. The captain, whose surname was Hemings, and the woman had a daughter. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was owned by the Eppeses, a prominent Virginia family. In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. You can read this before The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family written by Annette Gordon-Reed which was published in 2008–. Brief Summary of Book: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed