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A Founding Contradiction

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The Hemmingsis of Monticello, by Annette Gordon Reed

Historian annette gordon reed won the pillet surprise for her book, the hemmingsis of monticello. It tells the story of the hemming family and their lives as enslaved people on thomas jefferson's estate in virginia. How did jefferson’s sense of his obligations to the enslaved people at mont cello shaped the way he felt about them? This notion of being a patriarch, which is kind of problematic for us these days.

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