Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson
Subtitle: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Jeffersonian America)
Contributors: Jan Lewis (Editor); Peter S. Onuf (Editor)
Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813919188
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Multicultural studies; Slavery & emancipation; Virginia; c 1700 to c 1800; History; Women slaves; Slavery; U.S. President; United States; History - General History; Presidents; History: American; USA; African American Studies - History; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - General; Hemings, Sally; Jefferson, Thomas; Relations with slaves; Relations with women; African American women; United States - 19th Century; Albemarle County; Biography; Congresses
First sentence: Reading the essays in this volume and, indeed, all the material pertaining to the Jefferson-Hemings relationship published over the past three decades or so, one has the acute sense of being in the midst of a Faulkner novel.