The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of...
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Annette Gordon-Reed (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Trailblazer Award from the Metropolitan Black Bar Association. In 2008 Gordon-Reed published The Hemingses of Monticello, the first volume of a planned two-volume...
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Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), Annette Gordon-Reed recounts the history and biography of four generations of the enslaved...
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Sally Hemings (redirect from The Sally Hemings)
Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings' children." In 2008, Gordon-Reed published The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which explored the extended...
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Mary Hemings Bell (category People from Monticello)
Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., p. 424 Gordon Reed, Annette (2009). Hemingses of Monticello. W. W...
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James Hemings (category American people of English descent)
end." Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History...
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Thomas Jefferson (redirect from Sage of Monticello)
American Controversy. University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813916989. —— (2008). The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W. W. Norton & Company...
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Thomas Jefferson and slavery (redirect from 1827 Monticello slave auction)
American Controversy. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-1698-4. Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York:...
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House slave (category Slavery in the United States)
Retrieved 22 August 2007. Genovese (1967) Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York: W.W. Norton, 2008 "House". Oxford...
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by the Eppes family, to the Wayles family, and to Thomas Jefferson. The Hemingses were the largest family to live at Jefferson's house, Monticello. When...
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John Wayles (category American people of English descent)
Kouri, K. (2009). "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Book Review)". International Journal of Sociology of the Family. 35 (1): 143–14...
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Martha Jefferson Randolph (category Burials at Monticello)
She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia. Randolph's mother died when she was nearly 10 years old, when only two out of her five siblings...
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Jordan Anderson (category People of the Reconstruction Era)
in response to the colonel's request that Anderson return to the colonel's plantation to help restore the farm after the disarray of the war. It has been...
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acknowledged by historians (here, here). Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello and Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Leroy William Vaughn...
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Betty Hemings (category People from Monticello)
Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, (New York: Norton, 2008), 50-52. Lucia C. Stanton, Free Some Day: The African American Families of Monticello, University...
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Harriet Hemings (category People from Monticello)
foreword discussing DNA evidence, University of Virginia Press, 1998 Gordon-Reed, Annette, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York: W. W. Norton...
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Abolitionism (redirect from Abolition of the slave trade)
colonies. Under the actions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, chattel slavery has been abolished across Japan since 1590, though other forms of forced labour were...
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Patsey (category American people of Guinean descent)
Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film, Solomon Northup's...
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Ursula Granger Hughes (category Year of death missing)
2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18. Gordon-Reed, Annette (2009-08-25). The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1...
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War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United...
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who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and...
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Goodbye Uncle Tom (category Documentary films about slavery in the United States)
with Duvalier himself. Hundreds of Haitian extras participated in the film's various depictions of the cruel treatment of slaves, as well as white actors...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former...
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Eston Hemings (category People from Monticello)
strongly support the conclusion that Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings's children." Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American...
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The Hemingses of Monticello, Hemings Family Tree-1, frontispiece, 2008. Note: Eppes and Betsy Hemmings had a son Joseph and daughter Frances. "The Orders –...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah...
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the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground...
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Henry Box Brown (redirect from The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia)
1815 – June 15, 1897) was a Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists...
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novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose...
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John Wayles Eppes (category Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia)
Hemings Family/People of the Plantation, Monticello, accessed February 14, 2011 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, New York: W.W. Norton...
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