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Across the Atlantic: Giving Voice to Sally (Sarah) Hemings and Saartijie (Sarah) Baartman Across the Atlantic: Giving Voice to Sally (Sarah) Hemings and Saartijie (Sarah) Baartman
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Who Was Sally Hemings? Who Was Sally Hemings?
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Who Tells This Story: Composer William Bolcom and Writer Sandra Seaton Who Tells This Story: Composer William Bolcom and Writer Sandra Seaton
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Exploring the Verbal Text Exploring the Verbal Text
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Thinking about Genre Thinking about Genre
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Listening to the Music Listening to the Music
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Ghosts: The Legacies of the Past Haunting the Present Ghosts: The Legacies of the Past Haunting the Present
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Epilogue Epilogue
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3 Haunted Legacies: Interracial Secrets From the Diary of Sally Hemings
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Published:May 2018
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Abstract
This chapter examines the song cycle (also thought of as a monodrama or solo opera) by composer William Bolcom and playwright/librettist Sandra Seaton, From the Diary of Sally Hemings. The chapter includes a discussion of the DNA, kinship, and social controversies over the interracial pairing of Jefferson, a founder of the United States as a nation, and Hemings, his slave and consort. Through an analysis of the compositional genesis of the work, the text, and the music, this chapter also explores what is at stake for thinking about the breakdown of black-white racial categories. Extended references are made to Saartijie Baartman (the South African “Hottentot Venus”) and Edward Ball, the descendent of the Ball plantation who looked up interracial relationships with slaves in his family.
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