| Physical description |
xviii, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Fate of Sally Hemings 7 -- Chapter 2 Monticello 25 -- Chapter 3 James T. Callender with the Hammer of Truth 49 -- Chapter 4 Tom Is Banished 61 -- Chapter 5 Freedom Secured 87 -- Chapter 6 Rights of All 107 -- Chapter 7 Color Line 133 -- Chapter 8 Harvesting Strands of the Past 151 -- Chapter 9 Third Heart: The Brilliance of Dr. Fawn Brodie 169 -- Chapter 10 Minnie S. Woodson Strikes Genealogical Gold 181 -- Chapter 11 Search for Truth? 201 -- Chapter 12 Stop and Look Both Ways 221 -- Chapter 13 Calling All Cousins! 237 -- Appendix I Mr. Jefferson's Will 253 -- Appendix II Reminiscences of Madison Hemings 257. |
| Summary |
Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the age of 12 after a journalist exposed Jefferson's relationship with his young slave. A President in the Family traces Thomas Woodson's subsequent journey from Virginia to Ohio where he and wife Jemima, a former slave, would raise a productive and ambitious family. |
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Their eldest son Lewis, author of the famous Augustine letters, would carry on the family tradition of education, leadership, and public service. A founder of Wilberforce University and described by some as the father of black nationalism, Lewis argued that the black race should not depend on white philanthropy to achieve success in America. His children and grandchildren would prosper as entrepreneurs, engineers, and educators. |
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A President in the Family tells of the Woodsons' continuing struggle to correct accounts by Jeffersonian historians and their successful discovery of documentation that supports an oral history that survived independently in five branches of the family tree. Byron W. Woodson, Sr., a sixth-generation descendant of Jefferson, details the recent developments in the quest to corroborate family lore, to locate missing family members, and to reveal the truth about the complex day-to-day life at Monticello. This is the amazing story of the Woodson family and its steadfast effort to reveal its illustrious past to the American public. |
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with slaves.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
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Hemings, Sally.
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Woodson, Thomas, -1879.
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Jefferson family.
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Woodson family.
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Hemings family.
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Monticello (Va.)
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| ISBN |
0275971740 (alkaline paper) |
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