Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson : history, memory, and civic culture

Author(s)

• Lewis, Jan
• Onuf, Peter S.

Bibliographic Information

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson : history, memory, and civic culture

edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf

（Jeffersonian America）

University Press of Virginia, 1999

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A discussion of the probability (shown by DNA tests) that Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings's children. The essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings has raised about American history and national culture.

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Details

• NCID: BA45579983
• ISBN:
  • 0813919185
  • 0813919193
• LCCN: 99033901
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville
• Pages/Volumes: x, 280 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E332.2
  • DC21 : 973.4/6/092
  • DC21 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hemings, Sally -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with slaves -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Afro-American women -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Women slaves -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses
  • LCSH : United States -- Race relations -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA45579724