Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Most of us know Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States, the Founding Father who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Few know that after his wife died, he fell in love with his slave, Sally Hemings, and had seven children with her. This is the story of the four children who lived: Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston. Based on true facts, Bradley explains the hardships of growing up as both a slave AND Master Jefferson's children: the disappointments of never having a "father," the special treatment not extended to other Monticello slaves, and the constant battle to define oneself in a world that had already labeled them. Were they the President's children or slaves? And was it possible to be both?
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