Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
Subtitle: History, Memory, and Civic Culture
Contributors: Jan Lewis (Editor); Peter S. Onuf (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813919195
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Multicultural studies; Slavery & emancipation; Virginia; c 1700 to c 1800; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Women slaves; Albemarle County; Relations with women; History - U.S.; Jefferson, Thomas,; History: American; USA; Hemings, Sally; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - 19th Century; African American women; Presidents; United States; 1743-1826; 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.