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Gordon-Reed, Annette.

Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings Gor

Washington-Williams, Essie Mae

Summary: The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WAS

Cross, June.

Summary: The daughter of a white mother and black father describes the factors that caused her mother to place her in the custody of an African-American family and the impact of her mother's later choice to hide the truth about their relationship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROSS, JUNE CRO

Greenidge, Kerri K.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRE

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