The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission [Original retail ed.] 0890890854, 978-0890890851

In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from acro

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The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission [Original retail ed.]
 0890890854, 978-0890890851

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  • ’’In fairness to all parties, some of the historians, researchers, writers, and freelance controversialists to have weighed in on the question have made significant contributions to our knowledge of an understandably sensitive subject. Robert F. Turner in his meticulous and fair-minded ’The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy,’ for example, does yeoman service poking holes in some of the claims of what might be regarded as the pro-Sally school, from Fawn Brodie to Annette Gordon-Reed. Turner’s is a long-overdue corrective, worthy of respect and serious consideration.’’ --Alan Pell Crawford, author, ’’Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson’’
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