A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson Woodson, Byron W.

Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the age of 12, after a journalist exposed Jefferson's relationship with his young slave. A President in the Family traces Thomas Woodson's subsequent journey from Virginia to Ohio and documents the Woodson family's present-day efforts to uncover documentation in support of an oral history that has survived independently in five branches of the family tree. Thomas, the oldest of the five surviving children born to Sally Hemings and Jefferson, would carry on the family tradition of education, leadership, and public service. This is the amazing story of the Woodson family and its continuing pursuit to reveal its illustrious past to the American public.

DOI: 10.1336/0275971740 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7174.aspx

A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson Hardback, 312 pages, $35.00 Copyright ©2001, Praeger Trade ISBN: 0-275-97174-0 DOI: 10.1336/0275971740

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