Annette gordonreed harvard university history department. Annette gordonreed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the jeffersons, over three generations. The hemingses of monticello 2008 national book award nominee for nonfiction 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. Reviewers universally admired gordonreeds book but differed on how to read. As the hemingses of monticello makes vividly clear, monticello can no longer be known only as the home of a remarkable american leader, the author of the declaration of independence.
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Read free book excerpt from the hemingses of monticello by annette gordon reed, page 3 of 7. Although the book presents the most detailed and richly drawn portrait ever written of sarah hemings, better known by her nickname sally, who bore seven children by jefferson over the course of their thirtyeightyear liaison, the hemingses of monticello tells more than the story of her life with jefferson and their children. Annette gordon reed is the charles warren professor of american legal history at harvard law school and a professor of history in the faculty of arts and sciences at harvard university, and formerly the carol k. Sep 08, 2009 winner of the national book award and the pulitzer prize. Gordonreed, author of the highly acclaimed historiography thomas jefferson and sally hemings. Annette gordonreed has written a captivating piece of history about the hemings family, about the way they were inexorably intertwined with the jeffersons well before the sally story, about. An american controversy, unearths startling new information. Winner of the national book award and the pulitzer prize. Hemingses of monticello an american family by annette gordon reed. Review of the hemingses of monticello by annette gordonreed posted on 11032017 by rhapsodyinbooks the first thing to understand about this book is that it is not just a story about. Minneapolis startribune the hemingses of monticello by annette gordonreed, a historian and law professor, is a doorstop corrective to early american history, painting a composite.
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