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Article: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- March 22, 2000
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xxiv, 288 pp. $14.95 paper.
THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON captivates the attention of Americans, including those who are not generally interested in history as well as those who have made it their hobby, vocation, or profession. In venues as diverse as a recent special issue of the William and Mary Quarterly, an Oprah show, a popular novel, pages and chapters by professional historians, and a television mini-series, Americans have sought out the truth of this story, yearning to understand. Annette ...