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The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”―Jill Lepore, In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. The woman, whose...
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Hidden Brain
It was mentioned as a book by Annette Gordon-Reed that explores the Hemings family's experiences as enslaved people at Monticello, shedding light on Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings.
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Historian Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Hemingses of Monticello, which tells the story of the Hemings family and their lives as enslaved people on Thomas Jefferson's esta...
— Episode: A Founding Contradiction
Episode: A Founding Contradiction
It was mentioned as a book by Annette Gordon-Reed that explores the Hemings family's experiences as enslaved people at Monticello, shedding light on Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings.
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Historian Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Hemingses of Monticello, which tells the story of the Hemings family and their lives as enslaved people on Thomas Jefferson's estate in Virginia.
But when I started writing The Hemingses of Monticello and working on that, and I realized how important family was,
Episode: A Founding Contradiction
It won a Pulitzer Prize and delved into the lives of the Hemings family, specifically exploring Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings and the impact of slavery on their lives.
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Her 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello won the Pulitzer Prize.
But when I started writing The Hemingses of Monticello and working on that and I realized how important family was or I began to think about how important family would have been to someone like that.
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On Being with Krista Tippett
This book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, introduced the world to Sally Hemings and her children with Thomas Jefferson, adding a more complex and truthful chapter to American history. The author expected resistance to the book's revelations about Jefferson's relationship with his slaves, but found that many people already knew, or suspected, the truth.
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I expected resistance. I think most people, many people in the United States had believed that the story was true.
— Episode: Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar —...
Episode: Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Act...
This book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, introduced the world to Sally Hemings and her children with Thomas Jefferson, adding a more complex and truthful chapter to American history. The author expected resistance to the book's revelations about Jefferson's relationship with his slaves, but found that many people already knew, or suspected, the truth.
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I expected resistance. I think most people, many people in the United States had believed that the story was true.
The real opposition had been among historians who did not like the story because if you have a man and suddenly give him a person that he's lived with for 38 years and four kids, that changes the narrative of his life.
And that means you have to deal with it. They can't just be side characters. They have to be part of the story.
So Southerners knew this. Right, because as you say, this was an American life. This is an American life and that kind of thing happened in the South.
the reckoning was actually saying slavery was not just about making people work for no money. Slavery created a mingled bloodline between African-Americans and whites and acknowledged and unacknowledged.
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