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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Gordon-Reed, Annette.     Subjects     Hemings, Sally -- Family.     Hemings family.     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.     Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.     African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.     African American families.     African Americans -- Biography.     Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.     Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.     Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gordon-Reed, Annette.       by title:      The Hemingses of Mon...         MARC Display

The Hemingses of Monticello [electronic resource] : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed. by Gordon-Reed, Annette. New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2009. Subjects Hemings, Sally -- Family.   Hemings family.   Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.   Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.   African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.   African American families.   African Americans -- Biography.   Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.   Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.   Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2308374 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=31e2af60-489d-4b2c-8655-af6d1a57ca21&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0044-1/{31E2AF60-489D-4B2C-8655-AF6D1A57CA21}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780393070033 (electronic bk.) 0393070034 (electronic bk.) 9780393337761 0393337766 Description:  1 online resource (802 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical table, maps Contents:  Young Elizabeth's world -- John Wayles: the immigrant -- The children of no one -- Thomas Jefferson -- The first Monticello -- In the home of a revolutionary -- "A particular purpose" -- James Hemings: the provincial abroad -- "Isabel or Sally will come" -- Dr. Sutton -- The rhythms of the city -- The eve of revolution -- "During that time" -- Sarah Hemings: the fatherless girl in a patriarchal society -- The teenagers and the woman -- "His promises on which she implicitly relied" -- "The treaty" and "Did they love each other?" -- The return -- Hello and goodbye -- Equilibrium -- The brothers -- Philadelphia -- Exodus -- The second Monticello -- Into the future, echoes from the past -- The ocean of life -- The public world and the private domain -- "Measurably happy": the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- Retirement for one, not for all -- Endings and beginnings. Requests:  0 Summary:  Discusses the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family that had blood ties to Thomas Jefferson, who had an intimate relationship with Sally Hemings, his slave, and covers how the family of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles came under ownership to Jefferson through his marriage to Martha Wayles. Awards:  Pulitzer Prize, History, 2009. National Book Award, 2008: Nonfiction.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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