Sample Content from and commentary on:
The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson

Table of Contents

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Reviews and comments

About The Author

Some samples from the book:

• Chronology listed in Chapter 3.
• Briefly About: Betty Hemings
• Briefly About: Davy Hern & Isabel
• Occupations: Slaves that worked as carpenters for Thomas Jefferson
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• Volume I
• Drawing of Monticello and Mulberry Row
• Monticello - exterior photos showing views of the spring garden
• Photos of Monticello - interior photo of the front entrance
• Photos of Monticello's kitchen and the beer & wine cellar
• Drawings of Monticello by the Historic American Building Survey, National Park Service
• Photos of Poplar Forest Plantation - built by Thomas Jefferson
• Photos and map showing the original site of Thomas Jefferson's home at Elk Hill Plt.
• Transcribed land rolls recorded by Thomas Jefferson in 1794 and 1810
• Descendants of Abram and Doll - a genealogy chart that provides data on an enslaved family of Thomas Jefferson
• Descendants of Captain Hemings and an 'African' slave - a genealogy chart that provides data on an enslaved family of Thomas Jefferson
• Descendants of Peg - a genealogy chart that provides data on an enslaved family of Thomas Jefferson
• Dispersal Chart for the Descendant of Jupiter & Phyllis / Jack & Patt Kennon - these charts show the dispersal of two enslaved families of Thomas Jefferson
• Dispersal Mystery - Where did they go? - sample pages
• 1860 Census record for the family Madison Hemings in Ohio
• Genealogy charts for the Jefferson, Randolph and other related families in early Virginia
• Index for Volume I - sample pages
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• Volume II
• Virginia map drawn in 1781 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
• Map showing Free & Slave Holding States
• Original Documents with transcriptions
• Encylcopedic Index - a detailed reference tool - sample pages

Book released – December 2007!
Published by Sylvest-Sarah, Inc.

The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson:
A pictorial study book with an interpretation
of his Farm Book in genealogy charts

Set of volumes—ISBN # 978-0977847303
Hardcase: leather / Dustjacket: full color, laminated
Vol. I - size: 11”(W) x 14½” (H) -592 color pages
Vol. II - size: 11”(W) x 14½” (H) -496 color pages

Choice Magazine
November 2008
 ". . . a substantial achievement . . . Recommended"

The Journal of Southern History
November 2008
" . . . indispensable to a generation
or more of Jefferson scholars.”