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The publication of DNA test results showing that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of one of his slave Sally Hemings's children has sparked a broad but often superficial debate. The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture. The DNA tests would not have been conducted had there not already been strong historical evidence for the possibility of a relationship. As historians from Winthrop D. Jordan to Annette Gordon-Reed have argued, much more is at stake in this liaison than the mere question of historians must ask themselves if they are prepared to accept the full implications of our complicated racial history, a history powerfully shaped by the institution of slavery and by sex across the color line. How, for example, does it change our understanding of American history to place Thomas Jefferson in his social context as a plantation owner who fathered white and black families both? Wha

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Author

Sally Hemings; Thomas Jefferson; Jan Ellen Lewis; Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813919195

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.07 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13