182 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Sally Hemings: Given Her Time is an exciting, concise biography tells that tells the extraordinary tale of Sally Hemings, mother of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved children.
Born on the eve of the American Revolution, the war hung over Sally Hemings' childhood. As a teenager, she travelled to Paris to witness the beginning of another revolution. There, she entered a painful bargain and became... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Mothers Chapter 2: Revolution Chapter 3: Paris Chapter 4: Treaty Chapter 5: Implicit Chapter 6: Mother Appendix A: Family Connections Appendix B: Madison Hemings’s Memoir Appendix C: Excerpt from Gray Letter Study Questions Bibliographic Essay
Biography
Leigh Fought is Associate Professor of History at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and is the author of the award-winning Women in the World of Frederick Douglass as well as Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord.
