Gordon-Reed, author of the highly acclaimed historiography Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, unearths startling new information about the Hemingses, Jefferson, and his white family. So begins the Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed's "riveting history" of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work. The captain, whose surname was Hemings, and the woman had a daughter. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was owned by the Eppses, a prominent Virginia family. In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. Inside, the pages are clean and the binding is solid. The dust jacket is price clipped and there is very minor shelf wear along the jacket edges. Norton & Company, and is a stated first edition. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed is a 798-page hardcover published in 2008 by W.W.
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