Jefferson attends a seance led by Anton Mesmer. Maria tells Jefferson’s daughter Patsy of the deaths of her siblings at the hands of their nurse: “It was she who had poisoned the little babies, for what in her madness she thought was their salvation.” (0:44) Jefferson tells artist Maria about the losses of his wife and children. One lady at court asks another, “What would you do if your husband were sluggish and impotent to boot?” (0:17)
In 2000, her book Born in Bondage won the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize for Best Book in Southern Women’s History, given by the Southern Association for Women Historians.Jefferson tells Madame Abbesse, “You will forgive my perhaps somewhat exaggerated anxiety.” (0:13) Schwartz is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other research awards from the American Historical Association, the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists/McNeil Foundation and from the University of Rhode Island, including its Center for the Humanities.
She has begun another book on the First Ladies ( Scandal in the White House: First Ladies and Presidential Deceits), which argues that the reaction of First Ladies to the scandalous behavior of husbands has mattered for the stability of the nation. Her latest book, called Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves (Chicago University Press in 2016), depicts the world created by Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Martha (Patsy) Jefferson Randolph, Dolley Madison and the people they enslaved. She is currently professor emeritus of history at URI and an independent scholar and writer. taught at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland, before accepting a position at the University of Rhode Island where for twenty years she offered courses in the history of slavery and in the history of the early United States.
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