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**** The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed * 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York University and teaches history at Rutgers University. This is her second book resulting from her research on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings--following Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE TOPIC: In combination with the new science of DNA testing, Annette Gordon-Reed's 1997 legal investigation into the case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings led to a new historical consensus that Jefferson likely fathered at least some of Hemings's children. But Gordon-Reed's work was not finished; she hoped to give Hemings and her descendants a larger historical life than a footnote i...See the full content of this document
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