Wolf by the Ears is an emotional depiction of Harriet’s (Sally Hemings’ daughter) preparation to leave forever the home she loves at age 21, a home where she was pampered,loved and educated, though still Thomas Jefferson’s slave. The book is a fictional journal of what might have been her thoughts. Not intending to leave, she is confronted by certain realities – that living at Monticello she would be a slave and not protected after Jefferson’s death, that there is no guarantee of physical protection 24 hours a day for a “black” girl of marriageable years. Ultimately she decides she must leave and struggles with her decision and whether or not she is Jefferson’s daughter.
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