The President's Daughter - Softcover

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345389700 ISBN 13: 9780345389701

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1995

Synopsis

The sequel to Sally Hemings continues the fictional account of the life of Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Harriet, by his mistress and slave, Sally Hemings. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Chase-Riboud is an award-winning novelist and poet. Her bestselling historical novels include Echo of Lions, Hottentot Venus, Sally Hemings, and Valide.

From the Inside Flap:

a Chase-Riboud writes with a quill of eloquence that is indeed a sword, sounding with the spirituality of Toni Morrison and the passion of Charles Dickens."
--Elaine Brown
Author of A Taste of Power
Barbara Chase-Riboud made literary history with Sally Hemings, the controversial bestseller that told the story of the woman who was Thomas Jefferson's mistress, mother of his children, and the slave he would never set free. Now the provocative chronicle of Sally Hemings continues, in this rich, sweeping novel of Harriet Hemings, the beautiful and headstrong slave daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.
Allowed to run away from Monticello as Jefferson had promised, Harriet passes for white in the stormy era leading up to the Civil War. And then Harriet receives, from an anonymous sender, her brother Madison Hemings' memoirs. Madison is living on the black side of the color line and Harriet realizes that someone in her circle, perhaps even her own husband, knows that s

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0345389700
• ISBN 13: 9780345389701
• Binding: Paperback