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Author Gordon-Reed, Annette.

Title The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.4609 Gor    New Books Pittsburg 2ndFL  DUE 04-24-24
Edition 1st ed.
Description 798 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 737-753) and index.
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.
Awards Pulitzer Prize for History, 2009.
Local Note 1 2
Subject Hemings family.
Hemings, Sally -- Family.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.
African American families -- Virginia -- Albemarle County.
African American families.
African Americans -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Biography.
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.
ISBN 9780393064773 (hc.) : $35.00
0393064778 (hc.) : $35.00
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