![]() ![]() New Jersey Council of the Humanities Book Award,.Pulitzer Prize in History (Gordon-Reed was the first African American to be awarded this prize ).Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Award.National Book Award for Nonfiction, and.The book has won sixteen awards and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2009 Mark Lynton History Prize. Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis has called the book "the best study of a slave family ever written". Gordon-Reed wanted readers to "see slave people as individuals" and to "tell the story of this family in a way not done before". ![]() ![]() It is based on Gordon-Reed's study of legal records, diaries, farm books, letters, wills, newspapers, archives, and oral history. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master and the father of Sally Hemings' children. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. ![]()
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