President's Daughter: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics) - Softcover

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556529449 ISBN 13: 9781556529443

Publisher: A Cappella Books, 2009

Synopsis

Illuminating an enigma of the past, this title presents a chronicle of Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson's mistress, the mother of his children, and the slave he would never set free, even when the scandal nearly cost him the presidency.

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: A Cappella Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1556529449
• ISBN 13: 9781556529443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496