Sally Hemings

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/25/2022
  

  Jefferson's Time in Paris Revealed His True Beliefs About Slavery

  by Fred Kaplan

  Jefferson's discussions of slavery with his intellectual compatriots was at odds with the pragmatic and self-serving decisions he made about his own business affairs. 

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-15-18
  

  Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  For centuries, historians denied Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings. This exhibit has been a long time coming, but better late than never.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-16-18
  

  Monticello Is Done Avoiding Jefferson’s Relationship With Sally Hemings

  A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.

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• 6-15-18
  

  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Now Claims He Fathered Six Children with Sally Hemings

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  But is the matter really settled?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-13-18
  

  Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history

  On Saturday, Monticello will open the room to the public, with a small exhibition devoted to the life of Hemings and the Hemings family.

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• 5/6/18
  

  Monticello Claims to Have Found Sally Hemings’s Room. Is This True?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak and Vivienne Kelley

  No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-24-17
  

  Annette Gordon-Reed recalls the publication of her book on Sally Hemings 20 years ago

  She suggests it’s inaccurate to describe her as a passive actor utterly without agency.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  7-4-17
  

  No, Archeologists Did Not Just Discover Sally Hemings’s Room

  by Thomas A. Foster

  They found our own struggles with the past.

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• 2-26-17
  

  Did Jefferson Really Hide Sally Hemings in a Long-Lost Secret Room at Monticello?

  by William G. Hyland Jr.

  A skeptic argues that there’s no evidence Hemings even lived at Monticello.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-19-17
  

  For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.

  A $35 million restoration project will bolster Monticello’s infrastructure but also reconstruct and showcase buildings where enslaved people lived and worked.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-4-16
  

  Has one of Sally Hemings’s siblings been neglected by history unfairly?

  by Ashbell McElveen

  James Hemings, the brother of Sally Hemings, introduced fine French cuisine to America.

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• 8-15-15
  

  If Jefferson Had an Affair with Sally Hemings, We Have to Believe the Account Written by Her Son

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  But should we?

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• 6-28-15
  

  How Radical Was Jefferson?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  By the standards laid out by Hume, the answer is: pretty radical.

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• 3-15-15
  

  Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Pesky Argument from Character

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Gordon-Reed’s argument has remarkable consequences for the discipline of “behavioral” psychology.

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• 11-25-13
  

  Review of William G. Hyland Jr.'s "Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson"

  by Kathryn Moore

  A biography fit for the author of the seminal six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.