Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy

Annette Gordon-Reed

320 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced

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When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the ...

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