Aronson Memorial Lecture: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University

Professor Annette
Gordon-Reed of Harvard University delivers the 10th annual Aronson
Memorial Lecture, named for a devoted volunteer at St. Paul’s in the 1980s and
1990s.  Professor Gordon-Reed is the
author most notably of a landmark series of books which examined the
controversial subject of the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson
and the Hemings family, who were enslaved African Americans on Jefferson’s
Virginia plantation.  These books included
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:
An American Controversy, written in 1997, and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, published in 2008, which received the
Pulitzer Prize in History, among numerous other awards.