President and female slave

Author: Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Publish Date: 1999-10-01
Features: The scandals surrounding the U.S. President have always been a hot topic, capturing widespread public attention. This book narrates, with detailed and reliable historical facts and documents, the "scandalous story" between Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. President, and Sally Hemings, a woman slave with one-quarter African ancestry. However, this is a true and admirable legend of love. As a president, Jefferson could not protect the woman he deeply loved, who was in fact his wife, or the basic rights of his children to survival, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. This undoubtedly serves as a great satire on the so-called democracy and freedom of American society, while also showcasing, from a certain perspective, the political, economic, and social customs of early 19th-century American society.