The Hemingses of Monticello

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The Hemingses of Monticello is written by Annette Gordon-Reed and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393337766 (ISBN 10) and 9780393337761 (ISBN 13).

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, a slave family whose close blood ties to American president Thomas Jefferson had been systematically edited out from American history until very recently. This book sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1970s Philadelphia and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.