Bibliograph

Jefferson's daughters, three sisters, white and black, in a young America, Catherine Kerrison

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Jefferson's daughters, three sisters, white and black, in a young America, Catherine Kerrison

Language

eng

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Main title

Jefferson's daughters

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Oclc number

1027061586

Responsibility statement

Catherine Kerrison

Sub title

three sisters, white and black, in a young America

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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