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![]() ![]() From the British invasion of Richmond to the malaria and smallpox-infested encampment at Yorktown and to the storming of the Bastille, several of Elizabeth Hemings’s children had an ironic presence at galvanizing struggles for social transformation. ![]() The end of the 1780s and the beginning of the 1790s saw the denouement of one, in America, and the beginnings of two others, in France and in one of its colonies, Saint Domingue. ExcerptĮlizabeth Hemings and her children lived through the Age of Revolution. These people lived in a world that the Revolution was only just beginning to transform. In this excerpt, Gordon-Reed considers what the American Revolution meant to Elizabeth, Sally, and Sally’s children, some of whom travelled with Jefferson to Paris, Philadelphia, and New York. ![]() A key figure in this story is Elizabeth Hemings, Sally Hemings’s mother. In The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Gordon-Reed expands her work into a biography of an entire family in the era of the American Revolution. ![]()
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