This epic work–named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times–tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the … the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826.
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Was hoping that it was written as a novel but reads like a high school history textbook.
Such an incredibly researched, important book– I came away with a much more complex and nuanced understanding on the Hemings family (not just Sally) and their relationship to Thomas Jefferson and learned so much about slavery and its ongoing impact through the generations.