Sally Hemings

Barbara Chase-Riboud

earliest edition we have, 1979 Viking Press, 1979 348 pages

Barbara Chase-Riboud's moving and controversial novel recreates the love story of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, and his beautiful quadroon slave, Sally Hemings. Spanning two continents, sixty years, and seven presidencies, Sally Hemings explores the complex blend of love and hate, tenderness and cruelty, freedom and bondage, that made their lifel...

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Sally Hemings paperback · 2002 · Virago Press Ltd · 464 pages · 9781860499524
Sally Hemings paperback · 1999 · St. Martin's Griffin · 368 pages · 9780312247041
Sally Hemings edition · 1994 · Ballantine Books · 360 pages
Sally Hemings edition · 1988 · Avon Books · 9780380486861
Sally Hemings edition · 1979 · Viking Press · 348 pages

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