![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future.įor this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. She escaped slavery-apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”- The New York Times Book Review The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters-two white and free, one black and enslaved-and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent AmericaįINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE ![]()
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