Jefferson's Sons - Kimberly Bradley 有声书音频MP3+电子书
Reading age : 9 - 12 years
Lexile measure : 600L
Grade level : 3 - 7
Jefferson's Sons
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 09-13-11
Language: English
Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Audiobook - Audible
Publisher's Summary
The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children
What does it mean when the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is your father and also your slave master? Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father’s identity secret. They get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - but they are still slaves. Their father has promised to set them all free when each turns 21. Some of them are light-skinned enough that they will be able to enter white society - and thereby turn their backs on home forever. Others won’t have that option. So just what did their father mean when he wrote all men are created equal?
Told in three parts from the points of view of three of Jefferson’s slaves - Beverly, Madison, and a third boy close to the Hemings family - these engaging and poignant voices shed light on what life was like as one of Thomas Jefferson’s invisible offspring.
©2011 Kimberly Bradley (P)2011 Listening Library
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: Children's Audiobooks
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