Annette Gordon Reed: Hemingses of Monticello

Professor of law at New York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University, Annette Gordon-Reed talks about her new book, emThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family/em. In her new work, Gordon-Reed tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to the third US president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, but also their children and Hemings' siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.