Sally Hemings
  • Published:
    Jul-1979 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Historical Romance
  • Time Period:
    18th Century 19th Century
  • Pages:
    401
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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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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Apr-1988
    • Avon
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380486865
    • ISBN13: 9780380486861
    •  
    • Aug-2000
    • Griffin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312247044
    • ISBN13: 9780312247041
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    • Apr-2009
    • Chicago Review Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1556529457
    • ISBN13: 9781556529450
    • First Edition
    • Jul-1979
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670616052
    • ISBN13: 9780670616053
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    • Jan-1992
    • Buccaneer Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0899669158
    • ISBN13: 9780899669151
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    • Sep-1994
    • Ballantine
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0345389719
    • ISBN13: 9780345389718
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    • Apr-2009
    • Chicago Review Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Chicago Review Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1569766797
    • ISBN13: 9781569766798
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Chicago Review Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Chicago Review Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1569767939
    • ISBN13: 9781569767931
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    • 2003
    • Ulverscroft Large Print
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0708948219
    • ISBN13: 9780708948217
    • Large Print



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