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      Sally Hemings

      by Barbara Chase-Riboud
      Published
      Jul 1979
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
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      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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      Romance

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      Historical Romance

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      Apr 1988 Avon ISBN13 9780380486861 ISBN10 0380486865
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      Aug 2000 Griffin ISBN13 9780312247041 ISBN10 0312247044
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      Apr 2009 Chicago Review Press ISBN13 9781556529450 ISBN10 1556529457
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      First Edition Jul 1979 Viking ISBN13 9780670616053 ISBN10 0670616052
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      Jan 1992 Buccaneer Books ISBN13 9780899669151 ISBN10 0899669158
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      Jan 2003 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN13 9780708948217 ISBN10 0708948219
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