- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Saint Martin's Press; Auflage: Reprint (April 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312247044
- ISBN-13: 978-0312247041
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,9 x 14 x 2,4 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.084.462 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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When this stirring work by Philadelphia-born Paris-based sculptress and historical-fiction writer Barbara Chase-Riboud first appeared in 1979, it was dismissed by many mainstream historians as "hogwash." But with DNA evidence proving that Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, did indeed father at least one child by his black slave mistress, Sally Hemings, Chase-Riboud's book deserves a new read. With her painstaking eye for research, Chase-Riboud unfolds a complex 19th-century quilt of miscegenation, denial, hypocrisy, slavery and, yes, love in Virginia. She brings to life Heming's relationship with Martha, her half-sister and the President's wife on his Monticello estate; Jefferson's seduction of Hemings in Paris after Martha's death; and his lifelong concubinage of Hemings until his own death, when she and her offspring were freed. Chase-Riboud avoids the sentimental "tragic-mulatto trap" that other writers have fallen into when they deal with slave relations by making Hemings not only multidimensional and believable, but, given late-20th-century political scandals, chillingly contemporary. Along with the novel's other sub-themes, including black disenfranchisement and the fear of reenslavement, Riboud intimates that Jefferson-- despite his racist rantings in Notes on the State of Virginia, which Chase-Riboud uses as epigraphs--may have actually loved this black woman, and that the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings was perhaps the clearest example of the American imperative of "seeking a more perfect union," a controversial portrayal that Chase-Riboud makes plausible with skillfully written prose. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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"Unforgettable...Extremely affecting and poetic." --The New Republic
"An act of great daring...Deeply moving." --Chicago Sun-Times
"Exquisitely crafted...A sensitive life study of a truly exceptional woman: complex, courageous, irresistably attractive...elegantly self-possessed." --Cosmopolitan
"Sally Hemings is noble and mysterious-a female cult object." --Mary McCarthy
"An act of great daring...Deeply moving." --Chicago Sun-Times
"Exquisitely crafted...A sensitive life study of a truly exceptional woman: complex, courageous, irresistably attractive...elegantly self-possessed." --Cosmopolitan
"Sally Hemings is noble and mysterious-a female cult object." --Mary McCarthy
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When I was a young adolescent, my Illini-Germanic American and immigrant family and I went to Monticello. I inquired as to why there was a "trap door" into Jefferson's bedroom and was told that Mr. Jefferson used the space above his bedroom to store clothing, etc. I didn't believe it, Thanks be to God! Many years later, I learned of this book while living in Durham, NC. I found a copy in a used bookstore and read it and realized that my adolescent suspicions were grounded in hidden truths! Barbara Chase-Riboud charaturization of the Life of Jefferson is NOW something that the tour guides of Monticellio do reference. (Wonders never Cease!) The recent DNA studies and the fact that the some of the members of Thomas Jefferson's family have acknowledged the Hemmings as their Family members will no doubt bring this "long forgotten" historical-"fiction" novel into it's own. Hopefully, the re-publication of the work will benifit the Great-great-grand children of Sally Hemmings and will likewise recognize the other works of Barbara Chase-Riboud as well as other "Afro-American" Female writers who dared/dare to record American History NOT as "An American Controversy" but as This United State s of American History. Sally Hemmings is clearly in this work a Beacon of Light for the WOMEN of this Nation as Rosa Parks was/is. WOMEN of this Nation who dare to explore "where they came from" and "where their Strength" lies Embodied" will find in Sally Hemmings, as she speaks today from Barbara's novel, a Woman who lives more fully than she could enjoy herself when she was alive: in the world she was birthed into, she was not recognized as a Woman. Sally Hemmings today cannot escape the attention of any man or woman of Integrity. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings are NOT "An American Contoversery". Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings are, for those of us of Integrity, Founders of THIS Unitied States of America -- now fighting against the "ethnic cleansing" elsewhere!
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This book touches me as only one other has in my life. Like Final Verdict, adela rogers st. johns, the book is written from a feminine point of view, but it isn't anti-male. Rather, it celebrates humanity and love as only a woman can give it.
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Always a fan of historical biography,this reader felt Sally Hemings: A Novel was one of the best. The love story that Riboud tells is better than any fiction. This reader felt frustration in Hemmings' inability to leave Jefferson while at the same time found herself cheering for things to turn out differently.
Riboud creates moments for the reader to pause when she adds little known facts from history such as: Jefferson's relationship to Meriwether Lewis or his support for an antislavery clause in the original writing of the Constitution. Sally Hemings: A Novel is the story of one more bright articulate woman who sacrifices self for the love of a powerful dynamic man!
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