The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Co.
- First published
- 2008
- Length
- ≈ 798 pages
- Reading time
- 20–27 hours
- ISBN
- 0393064778
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
The historian Annette Gordon-Reed recounts the history of four generations of the Hemings family, from their origins in Africa and Virginia to the death in 1826 of Thomas Jefferson, the man who owned them and who fathered Sally Hemings’s children. The book is based on legal records, diaries, farm books, letters, wills, newspapers and oral history. Gordon-Reed has said she wanted readers to see enslaved people as individuals.
Source: The Hemingses of Monticello
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