Up for sale is a rare, complete first-edition two - volume set of: The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson: A Pictorial Study Book with an Interpretation of His Farm Book in Genealogy Charts. Written and meticulously compiled by genealogist and historian B. Bernetiae Reed, this monumentally significant work was self published in 2007 in a highly limited print run through Sylvester-sarah, Inc.
This specialized reference is widely recognized by institutions like the Virginia Historical Society as a masterwork of historical detection. Drawing heavily from primary sources, mapping data, historical photographs, and a exhaustive interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's original handwritten Farm Book records, the text painstakingly reconstructs the family trees, lineages, and daily realities of more than 600 enslaved individuals who live and labored across Jefferson's Virginia plantations.
This massive set features extensive multi-generation genealogy charts, facsimiles of historical documents, and an all-inclusive encyclopedic index that bridges cross-references across both volumes. Complete, unified sets of this printing are incredibly scarce on the secondary market, making this an essential acquisition for serious historical by genealogists, university libraries, and collectors of early American history.


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