{"product_id":"2940169210071","title":"Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughtersamp;mdash;two white and free, one black and enslavedamp;mdash;and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In \u003ci\u003eJefferson's Daughters,\u003c\/i\u003e Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three womenamp;mdash;and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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 Parisamp;mdash;a hothouse of intellectual ferment whose celebrated \u003ci\u003esalonnières\u003c\/i\u003e are vividly brought to life in Kerrison's narrative. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slaveryamp;mdash;apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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, initiated DNA testing) and searched for descendants of Harriet Hemings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eventful lives of Thomas Jefferson's daughters provide a unique vantage point from which to examine the complicated patrimony of the American Revolution itself. 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 Americaamp;mdash;and on the personal and political legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104424804592,"sku":"2940169210071","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169210071_p0.jpg?v=1763767324","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169210071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}