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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2 reviews
mscalls's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Graphic: Pregnancy, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Classism, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
alreads13's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Annette Gordon-Reed is a true historical detective. She pieced together so many stories from bits and pieces of information and caught the tiniest details to shed light on stories that have been purposely obfuscated. She looked at the Hemings’s lives from every possible angle and surrounded them with so much context you couldn’t doubt what she was saying. This book is a long one, but so worth it. It’s an important founding story of this country that needs to be told, and I’m so grateful it has been brought more completely into the light.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Grief, and Child abuse
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Alcoholism
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