![]() ![]() In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called Kerrison’s new book, which goes on sale next week, “Incisive and elegant. Harriet Hemings took a different route, managing to escape slavery-apparently with Jefferson’s help-and left Monticello in favor of an uncertain future in which she would attempt to pass as white. Martha and Maria were educated in an elite convent school in Paris during Jefferson’s diplomatic tenure there when they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of Virginia. The three women shared a father but not much else. ![]() Jefferson’s Daughters by Catherine Kerrison (Ballantine Books, 2018). In her new book Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America (Ballantine, 2018), historian Catherine Kerrison recounts the divergent life stories of these three women-and how their lives reflect both the possibilities open to women in Revolutionary America and the constraints imposed on them. Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave, Sally Hemings, his wife’s half-sister. Jefferson’s Daughters: Catherine Kerrison measures the chasm between the rhetoric and reality of revolution ![]()
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