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Article: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. xii, 280. $65.00.)
This work is a collection of essays that assess the implications of the 1998 DNA test results virtually proving that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one, and probably more, of the children of Sally Hemings, who was his slave. The editors, Peter Onuf and Jan Lewis, are distinguished Jeffersonian scholars but not members of the old guard who long rejected the liaison as unthinkable for a man of Jefferson's high moral standing. Two of the authors in particular, ...