TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winter,Jonah
AU  - Widener,Terry
TI  - My Name Is James Madison Hemings
SN  - 9780385383424
AV  - JUV E 332.2 .W58 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Schwartz & Wade Books
KW  - Hemings, Madison,
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas,
KW  - Hemings, Sally
KW  - Hemings, Sally.
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Monticello
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas
KW  - 1743-1826
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings's childhood at Monticello, and, in doing so, illuminate the many contradictions in Jefferson's life and legacy. Though Jefferson lived in a mansion, Hemings and his siblings lived in a single room. While Jefferson doted on his white grandchildren, he never showed affection to his enslaved children. Though he kept the Hemings boys from hard field labor instead sending them to work in the carpentry shop Jefferson nevertheless listed the children in his Farm Book along with the sheep, hogs, and other property. Here is a profound and moving account of one family's history, which is also America's history
ER  -