Who is Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Ms. Annette Gordon-Reed

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<p>Now updated with a new author's note about the recent DNA study confirming the Jefferson-Hemings liaison</p><p>Rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. It remains, among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, perhaps the most hotly contested topic. With Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Annette Gordon-Reed promises to intensify this ongoing debate as she identifies glaring inconsistencies in many not...0 points

Sally Hemings: A Novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died?the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published i...0 points

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

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In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr.

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<p>The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings---and that such an allegation was <i>proven</i> by DNA testing?has become so pervasive in American popular culture that it is not only widely accepted but taught to students as historical <i>fact</i>. But as William G. Hyland Jr. demonstrates, this ?fact? is nothing more than the accumulation of salacious rumors and irresponsible scholarship over the y...0 points

Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (Jeffersonian America) by Clarence E. Walker

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<p>The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "Did they or didn't they?" But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize. Mongrel Nation seeks to uncover this complexity, as well as the reasons it is so often obscured. </p><p>Clarence Walker contends that the relationsh...0 points