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Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family.(Review)
Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family By Scott Minerbrook. Harcourt Brace and Company (1996), 261 pages, $24.00 hardcover
WHEN I WAS 18, I learned, quite belatedly, that my father's brother had married a black woman. The wedding took place in 1958--the year I was born, the year after my parents married. Instantly I knew that racism had kept me from knowing my uncle (by then dead of a heart attack), my aunt, my cousins. Instantly I knew I would have to find them. But it was one thing to discover that the deepest, most volatile division in the country ran right through my family; actually crossing that divide to claim kinship was, for a long time, too ...
- RACIAL RANCOR UNDERCUTS `SALLY HEMINGS' SEQUEL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 11, 1994 700+ words
...of our nation's racial history. In her 1979 novel, ``Sally Hemings,'' Chase-Riboud wedded fact to imagination in her depiction...moving, effective novel of racial attitudes in the pre-Civil War era and in its aftermath is instead 400-odd pages of vitriol...
- THE THOMAS JEFFERSON/SALLY HEMINGS CONTROVERSY: Did Jefferson Also Father...
- Magazine article from: Ebony Randolph, Laura B. February 1, 1999 700+ words
...relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and fathered several children by...the great-great-great grandson of Sally Hemings' first-born child, Thomas Woodson...and four other male descendants of Sally Hemings, to participate in a study he was...
- Who Was Sally Hemings?(slave woman)
- Magazine article from: Ebony Randolph, Laura B. June 1, 1999 700+ words
...now on everyone's lips: Who was Sally Hemings? That the author of the Declaration...Wayles Jefferson, and the second by Sally Hemings, his beautiful slave and his wife...test proved with near certainty that Sally Hemings had a relationship with and at least...
- TV Movie `Sally Hemings: An American Scandal'.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Jet February 14, 2000 700+ words
...year relationship that slave Sally Hemings shared with Thomas Jefferson...told in the CBS miniseries Sally Hemings: An American Scandal. An...drama stars Carmen Ejogo as Sally Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson...
- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.(Review)...
- Early American Literature LEVINE, ROBERT S. January 1, 2001 700+ words
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory...father of at least one of his slave Sally Hemings's children (see Eugene A. Foster...were published later that year in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory...
- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly CAMP, STEPHANIE M.H. March 22, 2000 700+ words
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory...cloth. $17.95 paper. THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON captivates the...Gordon-Reed's Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy and Jan...
- 'Sally Hemings' sequel is due Oct. 26: Book tells story of
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The Rita Charleston October 11, 1994 700+ words
...Philadelphia Tribune, The 10-11-1994 'Sally Hemings' sequel is due Oct. 26: Book tells...publication of her first novel, "Sally Hemings," Barbara Chase-Riboud immediately...of fiction with historical facts, "Sally Hemings" generated enormous controversy and...
- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly CAMP, STEPHANIE M.H. March 22, 2000 700+ words
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, by...14.95 paper. THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON captivates...Reed's Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy and...