The Hemingses of Monticello [sound recording] : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400109753
- ISBN: 1400109752
- ISBN: 9781400139750 (lib. ed.)
- ISBN: 1400139759 (lib. ed.)
- Physical Description: 25 sound discs (31 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, p2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from publisher's web page. Unabridged. Compact discs. Duration: 31:30:00. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Karen White. |
Summary, etc.: | Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson, his mistress, slave Sally Hemings, and the rest of the Hemings family. Traces the history of the Hemings family from early eighteenth-century Virginia to their dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826, and describes their family ties to the third president against a backdrop of Revolutionary America and the French Revolution. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | BCD 973.46/0922 [B] Gor (Text) | 33160108931471 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | CD 973.46 GOR (Text) | 31953001793333 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | CD BIO HEMINGS GOR (Text) | 36058109114062 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN GOR (Text) | 36123114690637 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | A-BKCD 920 GORHE (Text) | 34005113397805 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Terryville Public Library | CD 973.46 GOR (Text) | 34028117099292 | Adult Book on CD | On holds shelf | - |
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The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family
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The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.