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092    BIO|bRANDOLPH 
100 1  Kerrison, Catherine,|d1953-|eauthor. 
245 10 Jefferson's daughters :|bthree sisters, white and black, 
       in a young America /|cCatherine Kerrison. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBallantine Books,|c[2018] 
300    xi, 425 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-402) and 
       index. 
520    Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by 
       his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his 
       slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine 
       Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history,
       recounts the remarkable journey of these three women - and
       how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the 
       possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the 
       American Revolution.   Although the three women shared a 
       father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria 
       received a fine convent school education while they lived 
       with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. 
       Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped 
       slavery - apparently with the assistance of Jefferson 
       himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach 
       and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this 
       groundbreaking triple biography, Kerrison has uncovered 
       never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson 
       sisters when they were in their teens, as well as letters 
       written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. 
       She has interviewed Hemings family descendants (and, with 
       their cooperation, initiating DNA testing) and searched 
       for possible descendants of Harriet Hemings. The richly 
       interwoven story of these three strong women and their 
       fight to shape their own destinies sheds new light on the 
       ongoing movement toward human rights in America - and on 
       the personal and political legacy of one of our most 
       controversial Founding Fathers. 
600 10 Randolph, Martha Jefferson,|d1772-1836. 
600 10 Eppes, Maria,|d1778-1804. 
600 10 Hemings, Harriet,|d1801- 
600 10 Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826|xFamily. 
650  0 Women|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Women|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.