The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson - Softcover

Sloan, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881373029 ISBN 13: 9781881373025

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson: Updated in 2007 with results of the latest DNA Tests and newly discovered evidence concerning his "relations" with his slaves.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Thomas Jefferson had 187 slaves. We know that because he kept meticulous hand-written records, which we still have. On January 14, 1774, after he inherited slaves from first his mother and then his father-in-law, Thomas Jefferson wrote his inventory of 187 slaves. In his last inventory, taken 50 years later in 1824, Thomas Jefferson also had 187 slaves. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 at the age of 83.In October, 1802, while he was president, the story was published in the newspapers that Thomas Jefferson, whose wife had died in 1782, was keeping his wife's slave half-sister, Sally Hemings, as a concubine and was producing children from her. Jefferson, who lived for 44 years after the death of his wife and who never remarried, never denied the story, but he never admitted it either. Sally Hemings was at his bedside when he died. All five children of Sally Hemings were freed by Thomas Jefferson either before his death or in his will. Thomas Jefferson made provisions for Sally Hemings in his will. These were almost the only slaves which Thomas Jefferson ever freed.

About the Author:

Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944 in Richmond, Virginia), is an American chess journalist and publisher. While having no formal legal training, he once orally argued a case in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ishi Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1881373029
• ISBN 13: 9781881373025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472