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Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / M. Andrew Holowchak.

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"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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Main Author: Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2013.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with women.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with slaves.
Hemings, Sally.
Paternity testing > United States > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Professor Robert F. Turner
  • Preface
  • pt. 1. THREE PROMINENT SPINS :
  • Mining Jefferson's ore: Jefferson's forbidden females
  • Controlling the discourse: Cutting down Jefferson to size
  • Rationalizations and secrets: Jefferson's affair of convenience
  • pt. 2: UNFRAMING THE LEGEND :
  • The "tiresome" argument from character: A defense of moral impossibility
  • High priests of the moral temple: Shifty science and "Aesopian history"
  • A "convenient defect of vision": Jefferson's view of Blacks
  • Appendix A: 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
  • Appendix B: A transcript of Madison Heming's account
  • Appendix C: Last will and testament of Thomas Jefferson.

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