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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is published by W.W. Norton & Company.
Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family tells a centuries-long, true story of relationships among slames and masters in South Carolina.
Edward P. Jones won also won a Pulitzer Prize, in his case for fiction, for The Known World, his account of slave-owning Blacks.
During the American Revolutionary War, the British promised escaped American slaves freedom and a new life. Simon Schama tells that story and the story of the abolitionist movement in England in Rough Crossings.
In his Commonweath Writers' Prize winning book, Someone Knows My Name, Lawrence Hill writes a compelling, fictionalized account of slaves and the slave trade in America.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. acquired and published The Bondwoman's Narrative which gives a very personal view of a woman's life in slavery just prior to the American Civil War.
In Interracial Intimacies legal scholar Randall Kennedy looks at the long and convoluted relationships among races in America.
A Magnificent Catastrophe is Edward J. Larson's telling of the story of the the vitriolic Presidential election of 1800 between the incumbent, John Adams, and his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson. Rumors about Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings featured pominently in the election.
David McCullough's best-selling John Adams presents a political life totally entwined with that of Thomas Jefferson.
In Brown Richard Rodriguez argues that love, across many presumed cultural, racial and gender barriers is the great untold story of American history And, here's a little background information on Paula Gordon and Bill Russell, the Program co-hosts. |
Acknowledgement
Empathy and compassion are always important ingredients in coming to terms with any relationship, human and otherwise. Ms. Gordon-Reed has broadened the sense in which American history can be approached with her keen understanding, as well as her commendable and highly accessible scholarship. Job exceedingly well done! |
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