| FT-270345-20 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Leigh Katherine Fought | A Biography of Sally Hemings (1773-1835): Given Her Time | 7/1/2020 - 5/31/2021 | $6,000.00 | Leigh | Katherine | Fought | | | | Le Moyne College | Syracuse | NY | 13214-1300 | USA | 2020 | U.S. History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | On-site research at Monticello for a short biography of Sally
Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson’s most historically notable slaves.
This biography will tell the life story of Sally Hemings, the
Anglo-African woman claimed by Thomas Jefferson as a slave, who was half-sister
to his dead wife, mother to his five youngest children, and a member of an
extensive kinship network of African Americans centered on his Monticello plantation.
As such, the book will also be an introduction to race, gender, slavery, and
freedom in the first fifty years of the American republic. The chapters will
follow the chronology of Hemings’s life from her birth in 1773 until her death
around 1835, with each focusing on a key question that has perplexed historians
who have written about her. The final chapter will look at the ways she has
been interpreted at the Monticello historical site and in popular culture.
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