Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/RANDOLPH,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781101886243 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1101886242 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First Monticello -- To Paris -- School life -- Families reunited -- Transitions -- Becoming American again -- A Virginia wife -- Harriet's Monticello -- An enlightened household -- Departure -- Passing -- Legacies
A portrait of the divergent lives of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters reveals how his white daughters struggled with the realities of lives they were ill-prepared to manage, while the daughter he fathered with a slave did not achieve freedom until adulthood