With Stanton’s help, White identified her paternal grandmother and great-grandmother, Eva Robinson and Rachel Robinson, respectively. White’s diligence attracted the attention of Lucia Stanton, a senior historian at Jefferson’s Monticello, the president's primary plantation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Gradually, over the next 40 years, White’s meticulous research – poring over original documents and census records, DNA tests, and academic studies – validated Aunt Peachie’s oral history. “(S)he died when I was five years old."ĥ books not to miss: Nikole Hannah-Jones' 'The 1619 Project,' 'The Office' oral history I’m not even sure of her name,” Jessup said. One day, while watching golf, Jessup unleashed the pain of his family’s saga. It took time for the naturally reticent Jessup to grow receptive to his daughter’s questions. White, alone with her father, Cedric Jessup, began to ask about the family lore. “Eventually, mom would leave us for days and weeks at a time on trips to Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean,” writes White. Seeking respite from a marriage impasse, White’s mother pursued an extravagant social and vocational life away from home. And White, a former news broadcaster, breathed life into the family’s oral history.ĭespite the family’s comfortable middle-class status, the marriage of White’s parents began to loosen at the seams. Janice indirectly passed the oral history down to White. Peachie excitedly and habitually, informed Janice, White’s sister, that they were descendants of Jefferson. More: Amazon releases its best books of 2021 list: 'An embarrassment of riches'Īt the beginning of White's journey of self-discovery is Aunt Peachie. A descendent of Jefferson and Peter Hemings (Sally’s brother), White not only gives voice to her Black ancestors but adds historical significance to a new generation of Hemingses and Jeffersons. With her new book “Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy” (Amistad, 288 pp., ★★★ out of four, out now), Gayle Jessup White begins to shift the scales. But because of her enslaved status, Hemings was never able to contribute anything to that story. Derogatory terms like “Dusky Sally” and “Black Sal'' proliferated to describe Hemings. The enemies of Jefferson attempted to tarnish his reputation and career by exposing his sexual, or romantic, relationship with an enslaved woman. One of America’s most well-known narratives – the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings – first made national news as a political scandal. Our nation’s framers were not just proprietors of land and humans, they also controlled the narrative. In 2010, Ricchiuti was behind a fundraising push for money to overhaul a rundown La Jolla fire station.Ownership rests at the base of the American blueprint. She eventually returned to San Diego, married her high school sweetheart and had three children. Doug Manchester is a former owner of The San Diego Union-Tribune.Īccording to an obituary that ran in the newspaper, Ricchiuti graduated from La Jolla High School in 1988 and University of Colorado four years later. Ricchiuti was the daughter of Doug and Betsy Manchester. The prosecutor said another woman who bought pills from Breslow - after he bailed out of jail following his first arrest - was “devastated” to learn they contained fentanyl, and had “sincerely believed they were legitimate pharmaceuticals.”Īlicia Freeze, one of Breslow’s two attorneys, said after the arraignment that her client and his family are “saddened” by the additional charge, and she noted that her client is a lifelong San Diego resident with no criminal record. Madero said text messages show Breslow had once offered fentanyl to Ricchiuti because he was out of other pills, but she declined. A subsequent search of his home turned up 50 fentanyl and 55 oxycodone pills, the prosecutor said. He was arrested and booked into county jail, but later bailed out. The prosecutor said authorities searched Breslow’s home after Ricchiuti died and found more than 600 fentanyl pills, 67 grams of cocaine, 14 grams of ecstasy and 42 alprazolam pills. Breslow was selling her fentanyl-laced pills,” Madero said. “She thought she was buying legitimate pharmaceuticals, and in fact Mr.
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