Monday, February 6, 2012
7:00-9:00 pm
National Museum of Natural History
Baird Auditorium
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Metro: Smithsonian/Federal Triangle
NPR’s Tell Me More host Michel Martin and Prof. Annette Gordon-Reed, Prof. of Law, Harvard University, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family will discuss the lives of six slave families living at Monticello alongside Jefferson and his family. They will also explore ideas about how Thomas Jefferson and the 11 other American Presidents who owned slaves could have used the power of their office to end slavery and improve the lives of free black communities across the U.S., and chose not to. This program is based on the exhibition, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty. Copies of The Hemingses of Monticello, and Andrew Johnson will be available for sale and signing. The event is free and open to the public on a first come-first seated basis. Please call 202/633-0070 for more information.
via NMAAHC – Home Page.
Shadows, Echoes & Footprints 
Fascinated by the Hemmings connection, and the fact that the descendants over the past decade have been very public in the media.