Treated. Sally hemings for example, it was sort of, people dont know very much about her and think of her primary as a problem, as the controversy but i turned that in my book was a person. She was a daughter. She was someones sister. She was someones mother and friend, and without thinking of her in those ways, putting her in that light is so easy to say anything you want to say about her. You can give her fathers of her children sort of every 10 years based upon nothing because you dont know her, because there is no sense of the connection with her as a person. Theres no care with her life. What i thought i would try to do with this book was can talk not just about her but to talk about her entire family, to put all of the innings into the context that would make it easier for people to see them as human beings and not as slaves, not as part of a particular problem. Over the next few weeks booktv now in its 15th year on cspan2 is taking a look back at authors, books and publishing ne
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