Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel

Synopsis

A Historical Tale Inspired By The Decades-long Relationship Between Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings Details Their First Encounters In Late-eighteenth-century Paris And The Inconsistent Values That Shaped Their Affair. Jefferson Is Both The Visionary Founding Father And An Egotistical Bigot; Hemings Struggles To Make A Radical Assertion Of Her Freedom, While Fearing Her Rage May Destroy Her Life.,modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945). A Debut Novel About Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings, In Whose Story The Conflict Between The American Ideal Of Equality And The Realities Of Slavery And Racism Played Out In The Most Tragic Of Terms. Novels Such As Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Known World By Edward P. Jones, James Mcbride's The Good Lord Bird And Cloudsplitter By Russell Banks Are A Part Of A Long Tradition Of American Fiction That Plumbs The Moral And Human Costs Of History In Ways That Nonfiction Simply Can't. Now Stephen O'connor Joins This Company With A Profoundly Original Exploration Of The Many Ways That The Institution Of Slavery Warped The Human Soul, As Seen Through The Story Of Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings.