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The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission

Title
The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission / edited by Robert F. Turner.
Author
Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Turner, Robert F.
Description
xix, 412 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Understanding the DNA evidence linking Eston Hemings to Thomas Jefferson's cousins -- The enigmatic Sally Hemings : so few facts, so much fantasy and speculation -- James Thomson Callender and the origins of the 1802 Jefferson-Hemings scandal -- Madison Hemings' 1873 "memoir" in the Pike County Republican -- Thomas Jefferson's visitation patterns to Monticello and their correlation with Sally Hemings' conceptions -- "Extraordinary privileges" for Sally Hemings and her children -- The physical resemblance of some of Sally Hemings' children to Thomas Jefferson -- Reassessing the oral tradition of Sally Hemings' descendants -- Miscellaneous arguments said to support Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children -- Revisionist arguments reconsidered : evidence too quickly dismissed? -- The "silent dogs" and other issues ignored by most revisionist scholars -- Individual views of Jean M. Yarborough, Charles Kessler, and Professor Harvey C. Mansfield -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : case closed? -- Individual views of professor Robert H. Ferrell -- The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings myth and the politicization of American history -- Individual views of professor Forrest McDonald -- Does the DNA analysis establish Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children? -- Thomas Jefferson : brother's keeper -- Minority views of Professor Paul A. Rahe -- Editor's postscript : reactions to the Scholars Commission report.
Call Number
Sc F 11-633
ISBN
  • 9780890890851 (alk. paper)
  • 0890890854 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010031551
OCLC
149077465
Author
Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter.
Title
The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission / edited by Robert F. Turner.
Imprint
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Turner, Robert F.
Research Call Number
Sc F 11-633
IID 12-845
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