Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

An American Controversy
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ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4
Verlag: University of Virginia Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Rumours of Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to intensify the debate, arguing not that the events necessarily took place, but that the evidence for their taking place has been denied a fair hearing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon-Reed, Annette

Über Autor(innen)

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which won both the Pulitzer Prize in History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction.