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Article: RACIAL RANCOR UNDERCUTS `SALLY HEMINGS' SEQUEL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 11, 1994
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Byline: SUSAN LYNNE HARKINGS
Poet, sculptor, and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud is a woman of remarkable accomplishments, but her chief talents may well lie in her considerable ability to create controversy while blazing new trails through the tangled and often secretive past of our nation's racial history. In her 1979 novel, ``Sally Hemings,'' Chase-Riboud wedded fact to imagination in her depiction of Thomas Jefferson's evidence-supported dangerous liaison with a black woman, an illicit and illegal relationship that possibly spanned 38 years and produced seven children.
So intrigued were readers with this story of a passion whose heat melted the ...