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By Barbara Chase-Riboud

One of the best love tales in American heritage is usually probably the most debatable. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he enjoyed and lived with until eventually he died—the appealing and elusive Sally Hemings. however it was once no longer easily that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked any such scandal in either his time and ours. It was once that Sally Hemings used to be a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family members whose descendants are alive this day. during this relocating novel, initially released in 1979 and having bought over million copies all over the world, Barbara Chase-Riboud re-creates one in every of America’s strongest love tales, in accordance with the files and proof of the day, and provides us a poignant, tragic, and unforgettable meditation at the historical past of race and intercourse in America.

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