The story, told in alternating time narratives, begins in 1831 when
Sally is aproximately sixty years old and is visited by a census
taker called Nathan Langdon. With encouragement, Sally recounts her
past to him. A past that begins when she passes into the ownership
of her half-sister Martha Wyles who marries Thomas Jefferson. After
Martha dies, Jefferson goes to Paris where he is joined by his two
daughters. Elizabeth Hemings volunteers Sally as their maid, seeing
it as Sally's chance for freedom as slavery has been abolished in
France. Jefferson and Sally fall in love and she returns to America
with him, on the promises that they will go back to France someday
and that she will be the only mistress of his estate in Monticello.
Both promises are broken when Jefferson accepts political office
and allows his daughter to live at Monticello after her marriage
breaks down. Sally realises that nothing has or ever will change
for her. A fact borne out when Jefferson dies and his will does not
free her, only her last two sons, from bondage. She has not only
been held in bondage by the fact of slavery, but by love as well.
She has been a possession of both and only she can free herself.
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