Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / M. Andrew Holowchak.
"It is accepted by most scholars that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children. This conclusion is based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed, assumed by many to be the last...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Framing a legend : |b exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / |c M. Andrew Holowchak. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Foreword / |r Professor Robert F. Turner -- |g Preface -- |g pt. 1. |t THREE PROMINENT SPINS : -- |t Mining Jefferson's ore: Jefferson's forbidden females -- |t Controlling the discourse: Cutting down Jefferson to size -- |t Rationalizations and secrets: Jefferson's affair of convenience -- |g pt. 2: |t UNFRAMING THE LEGEND : -- |t The "tiresome" argument from character: A defense of moral impossibility -- |t High priests of the moral temple: Shifty science and "Aesopian history" -- |t A "convenient defect of vision": Jefferson's view of Blacks -- |g Appendix A: |t A transcript of Callender's 1802 article: "The President Again," by James Thomson Callender, in The Recorder; or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany, Published September 1, 1802 in Richmond, Virginia -- |g Appendix B: |t A transcript of Madison Heming's account -- |g Appendix C: |t Last will and testament of Thomas Jefferson. |
| 520 | 0 | |a "It is accepted by most scholars that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children. This conclusion is based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed, assumed by many to be the last word on the subject. But as author M. Andrew Holowchak argues compellingly in this eye-opening investigation, the DNA evidence is inconclusive and there are remarkable flaws in the leading historical scholarship purporting to show such a liasion." -- Book jacket. | |
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