Sally Heming (59 page)

Third, the letters of John and Abigail Adams and the Family
Letters of Thomas Jefferson, his Farm Book and his Account Book.

An unpublished paper at the University of Virginia Library
by Jean Hanvey Hazelton, "The Hemings Family of Monticello," must be
mentioned, as well as the Jefferson Lectures of Eric Erickson at Princeton
University; Cornel Lengyel's
Four Days in
July, The Autobiography of John Trumbull
and the Nathan
Schachner biographies of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

Lastly to be mentioned:
The Jefferson Papers
of Julian Boyd
and his article "The Murder of George Wythe," published in the
William and Mary Quarterly; Thomas Jefferson, The Darker Side,
by Leonard W. Levy and the catalogue and the exhibition, "The Eye
of Thomas Jefferson," organized by The National Gallery, Washington, D. C.

My last acknowledgment is to a nineteenth-century novel,
Clotel, or the President's Daughter,
published in England in
1853
by William Wells Brown, a runaway slave, considered the father of the
Afro-American novel. Although I read the original version only after I wrote
this book, I was touched to the quick by the recognition of cadences, themes,
wellsprings of feeling that are the roots of Afro-American writing. That the
theme of this novel, the first black novel published outside the United States,
is the same and was written by an expatriate in the true sense of the word,
only brings the circle full round. I would like to thank my editor Jeannette
Seaver, the Schomburg Collection of Black Culture, my researcher Rother Owens,
my secretary and editorial assistant Carolyn Wilson, Victoria Reiter, my family
and my friends.

SOURCE DOCUMENTS

Census Entry, Albemarle County,
1830
(Courtesy of the Microfilm Division, The University of
Virginia)

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Francis C. Gray,
1815
(Writings, Thomas Jefferson [Monticello Edition], Lipscomb
and Bergh, Volume XIV, pp. 267-71)

Passport issued by Louis XVI for Thomas Jefferson, Maria
and Martha Jefferson, James and Sally Hemings,
1789
(Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress)

Description of harvest at Monticello, List of Slave Workers
(Thomas Jefferson Garden Book [1795-96])

Promise of Emancipation of James Hemings,
1793
(Writings, Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, September 15
,
1793, Boyd, 18 vols., Princeton)

Two letters from James T. Callender to Thomas Jefferson,
1800
(Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress)

"The President Again," by James T. Callender,
The Richmond Recorder,
1802
(September 1,1802, Archives, The Virginia State Library)

The Census of My Family, Farm Book, Thomas Jefferson,
1807
(Thomas Jefferson, Farm Book, 1807, Massachusetts
Historical Society)

The Slave Inventory and Advertisement of Slave Auction,
Monticello,
1826
(Courtesy of Jefferson Papers, University of Virginia Library,
Manuscript Department. Notice from
Richmond
Enquirer,
November
7,
1826, courtesy of Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Monticello)

Excised portion of the Declaration of Independence,
1776
(Manuscript
Department, The Library of Congress)