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Country United States Publication date 2008 ISBN 0-393-06477-8 Originally published 17 September 2008 Page count 800 Publisher W. W. Norton & Company | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 800 OCLC 225087744 Genre Biography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Similar Annette Gordon-Reed books, Pulitzer Prize for History winners, Slavery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The hemingses of monticello an american family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master, Sally Hemings' partner, and the father of her children.
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It is based on Gordon-Reed's study of legal records, diaries, farm books, letters, wills, newspapers, archives, and oral history. Gordon-Reed wanted readers to "see slave people as individuals" and to "tell the story of this family in a way not done before". Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis has called the book "the best study of a slave family ever written".
The book has won sixteen awards and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2009 Mark Lynton History Prize.
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In 2010 Annette Gordon-Reed was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her works on colonial and early American history, race and slavery. The Foundation noted that her "persistent investigation into the life of an iconic American president has dramatically changed the course of Jeffersonian scholarship."