Summary, Analysis & Review of Stephanie Dray’s and Laura Kamoie’s America’s First Daughter
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America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based on Jefferson’s letters and actual historical events, the novel imagines Patsy’s struggles to remain loyal to her father while following her own heart during America’s turbulent post-Revolutionary years.
The novel opens in 1826 just after the death of Jefferson. Patsy is left to go through her father’s letters. In addition to Patsy, Jefferson is survived by Sally Hemings, a slave about Patsy’s age who is the half-sister of Jefferson’s late wife. Hemings was his lover for many years and the mother of several of his children. Patsy knows the story of her father’s long relationship with Sally can never be told. It is Patsy’s duty to protect both her father and her country by keeping his secrets…
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America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha Patsy
Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based on Jefferson’s letters and actual historical events, the novel imagines Patsy’s struggles to remain loyal to her father while following her own heart during America’s turbulent post-Revolutionary years.
The novel opens in 1826 just after the death of Jefferson. Patsy is left to go through her father’s letters. In addition to Patsy, Jefferson is survived by Sally Hemings, a slave about Patsy’s age who is the half-sister of Jefferson’s late wife. Hemings was his lover for many years and the mother of several of his children. Patsy knows the story of her father’s long relationship with Sally can never be told. It is Patsy’s duty to protect both her father and her country by keeping his secrets.
In Part One, The Dutiful Daughter,
Patsy recalls the time a frantic messenger arrived at Monticello, Jefferson’s Virginia plantation, to warn Jefferson that the British were coming. The year is 1781. Patsy is only eight years old. Jefferson loads his wife, Martha, along with Patsy and her younger sister Polly, into a carriage. He entrusts them to his 22-year-old friend William Short and promises to catch up with them later.
Jefferson avoids capture by the British, then takes his family into the mountains to hide. William shows up several weeks later to report