Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison: A Book Review
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America Author: Catherine Kerrison Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2018 Pages: 334 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America. 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 ...