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Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
Title:
Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
Author:
Kerrison, Catherine, 1953- author.
ISBN:
9781101886243
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Physical Description:
xi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
First Monticello -- To Paris -- School life -- Families reunited -- Transitions -- Becoming American again -- A Virginia wife -- Harriet's Monticello -- An enlightened household -- Departure -- Passing -- Legacies.
Abstract:
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.
Document ID:
SD_ILS:2287149
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