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"Sally Hemings destroys the myth that she was a victim of Thomas Jefferson's lust and describes in detail their 38-year affair that survived family wars, scandal, and bankruptcy."

This is the premise of the historical fiction Sally of Monticello by Jefferson historian N.M. Ledgin. This is the first novel of its kind to portray Sally as intelligent, feisty, and influential over founding father Jefferson. The book threads its way through their long and strong love affair, demonstrating it was nothing less than that.

In Sally of Monticello, Hemings is a self-assured young woman who grows into maturity as she becomes assertive and pivotal in the life and legacy of our third president. Author N.M. Ledgin has taken the cue for this work directly from Jefferson's own copious notes he made throughout his lifetime.

This candid depiction of Sally, half-sister to Thomas’s late wife, elevates her from others’ portrayals as a passive and brooding victim to a self-educated, lively, and often assertive person. She bore eight children by Jefferson, four of whom survived and went free. She was a helpmate who became Monticello housemistress and was often in conflict with his daughter (and her niece) Martha Randolph.

Critical to note is that when their affair began in Paris, Sally was a free woman, for France did not acknowledge slavery. Pregnant with their first child from a romance consummated between exceptional equals, Sally chose Thomas over freedom and returned willingly to enslavement in Virginia, where their intimate relationship would continue until his death.

The author contends Jefferson would not have spent 38 years faithfully—in a relationship he defended uncompromisingly and quietly—with a woman of any less character and commitment.

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Sally of Monticello

 

"Sally Hemings destroys the myth that she was a victim of Thomas Jefferson's lust and describes in detail their 38-year affair that survived family wars, scandal, and bankruptcy."

This is the premise of the historical fiction Sally of Monticello by Jefferson historian N.M. Ledgin. This is the first novel of its kind to portray Sally as intelligent, feisty, and influential over founding father Jefferson. The book threads its way through their long and strong love affair, demonstrating it was nothing less than that.

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