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Summary Of Jefferson's Sons

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Jefferson’s Sons is about Thomas Jefferson and his seven children he had with his slave Sally Hemmings. The whole story talks about how Marriet, Beverly, Madison, and Eston having to live their whole lives a big secret. Having a father with such power did afford them the privilege of new shoes, clothes, even violin lessons. The book focuses on the complications they went through as kids and leads into them leaving at the age of twenty one.

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