Author: Ralph D. Smith
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Includes information about Simpson family slaves.
The Simpson Families of Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and the District of Columbia to 1820
Author: Ralph D. Smith
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Includes information about Simpson family slaves.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Includes information about Simpson family slaves.
Jefferson's Daughters
Author: Catherine Kerrison
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1101886269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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 America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For 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. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1101886269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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 America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For 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. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage
Genealogy Bulletin
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
Author: Frederick Adams Virkus
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Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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The American South
Author: Jessica S. Brown
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
"This two-volume work ... with its almost 8,900 abstracts and annotations of articles drawn from an international list of over 500 periodicals dealing with history and related disciplines published between 1974 and 1984 ... "Introduction, p. viii.
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
"This two-volume work ... with its almost 8,900 abstracts and annotations of articles drawn from an international list of over 500 periodicals dealing with history and related disciplines published between 1974 and 1984 ... "Introduction, p. viii.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880
Author: George Washington Williams
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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History of Randolph County, Indiana
Author: E. Tucker
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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