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Sally Hemings : A Novel, Paperback Book

Sally Hemings : A Novel Paperback

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One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial.

Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings.

But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours.

It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today.

In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two million copies worldwide, Barbara Chase-Riboud re-creates one of America’s most powerful love stories, based on the documents and evidence of the day, and gives us a poignant, tragic, and unforgettable meditation on the history of race and sex in America.

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