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by Stephen Puleo (Author)

He laid the cornerstone arguments that civil rights advocates would build upon over the next century as the country strove to achieve equality among the races

But has he received too much credit at the expense of other men

Hemingses of Monticello art From flamingThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon Reed Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid 1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was