The moment Martha Jefferson discovers that a few drops of Negro
blood course through her aristocratic veins, she knows she will do
anything to keep this terrible secret from her politically
ambitious husband, Thomas.
When fire strikes Monticello, the resulting repairs to Thomas
Jefferson's historic home reveal a human skeleton, and the
questions begin. . . the "when" is easily discovered, but the "who"
and the "why" weave a tantalizing mystery that is Monticello's dark
secret.
In this well-researched novel, which successfully melds
historical fact with an intriguing 'what if', we are led back in
time to the gripping tale of two women, Martha Jefferson and Betty
Hemings, mother of infamous Sally Hemings, both forgotten threads
in the rich tapestry of America's history. Nothing about them save
their names has survived the centuries-- not a likeness nor a
personal letter. We know both belonged to the same man, Thomas
Jefferson, one through the vows of marriage and the other through
the laws of slavery, and that both lived, dreamed and died in
Virginia at a time in our new Nation when fact was more exciting
than fiction.
Now, we can finally know and understand them as they might have
been.
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