![]() ![]() So begins this epic work―named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times,, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times―Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work. ![]() The captain, whose surname was Hemings, and the woman had a daughter. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was owned by the Eppeses, a prominent Virginia family. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “ commanding and important book.”―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. ![]()
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