White, Gayle Jessup
Summary: Chronicling her remarkable journey to definitively understand her heritage and reclaim it, a black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family offers a compelling portrait to ensure the nation lives up to the ideals advocated by her legendary ancestor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, GAYLE JESSUP WHIJefferson, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by the University Press of Virginia 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 JEFJefferson, Margo
Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFGordon-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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings GorKerrison, Catherine
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women--and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 KERKerrison, Catherine
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women--and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom KerrisonHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004