The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-AmericanHemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master and the father of Sally Hemings' children.[1]
It is based on Gordon-Reed's study of legal records, diaries, farm books, letters, wills, newspapers, archives, and oral history.[1] Gordon-Reed wanted readers to "see slave people as individuals" and to "tell the story of this family in a way not done before".[1] Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis has called the book "the best study of a slave family ever written".[1]
In 2010 Annette Gordon-Reed was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her works on colonial and early American history, race and slavery. The Foundation noted that her "persistent investigation into the life of an iconic American president has dramatically changed the course of Jeffersonian scholarship."[13][14]
Referencesedit
^ abcdCohen, Patricia. "Seeing past the slave to study the person", The New York Times (September 19, 2008).
^Jennie Yabroff, "A Lawyer’s New Jefferson Memorial: The next chapter in the Hemings saga", NEWSWEEK
^2008 NBCC Finalists Announced 2009-06-01 at the Wayback Machine |author= Barbara Hoffert
François Furstenberg, "Jefferson's Other Family: His concubine was also his wife's half-sister", review of Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, Slate, 23 September 2008
Video: Annette Gordon-Reed discusses The Hemingses of Monticello
Listen: Annette Gordon-Reed on NPR's Talk of the Nation
Excerpt: (via TheRoot.com)
January 01, 1970
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