Sally Hemings as a Love Story
In the book Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud many people often categorize its' contents into two subjects one being a love story and the other as a biography of Thomas Jefferson. To me this book outlines the romantic story between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It shows us not only the love story of their relationship but the romantic epic of how Thomas Jefferson as a widower copes with the death of his wife, Martha. Its' pages unravel to us a deeper side of Jefferson, a side only seen by the eyes of Sally Hemings. It introduces us to conversations that may have taken place between the two that leads us to believe this is a love story.
Thomas Jefferson was a widower with a daughter—five other children having died young—when he met Sally Hemings. She was in her mid teens, when they became lovers. They had several children together who were of course put into slavery. The author allows us to see that Hemings graced Jefferson's......
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