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10. Mai 2024 · In 1997, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” by the historian Annette Gordon-Reed, took Jefferson’s earlier biographers and historians to task for their...
8. Mai 2024 · Sally Hemings (born 1773, Charles City county, Virginia [U.S.]—died 1835, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.) was an American slave who was owned by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson and is widely believed to have had a relationship with him that resulted in several children.
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Vor 2 Tagen · Annette Gordon-Reed (left); scene from 2000 movie, “Sally Hemings: An American Scandal” (center); Joseph Ellis (right); I am neither a historian nor a Thomas Jefferson expert, but Eric Hobby’s criticism of the consensus view that America’s founding father fathered a child with an enslaved woman is worth considering.
15. Mai 2024 · A new book raises serious doubts about the allegation that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings that produced one or more children. Entitled “The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission,” it presents the conclusions of a yearlong inquiry by more than a dozen senior ...
10. Mai 2024 · In 1997, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” by the historian Annette Gordon-Reed, took Jefferson’s earlier biographers and historians to task for their insistence that Jefferson’s fathering of his six children with Hemings was improbable, including some who claimed he was celibate for almost four ...
Vor einem Tag · Some historians have explained Jefferson’s ambiguities and equivocations as products of intellectual dilemmas over slavery and liberty, or of internal psychological conflict engendered by anxieties over his own animal nature that were reinforced by his sexual relationship with the African American Sally Hemings. In Dain’s view, however ...
10. Mai 2024 · Rumours of Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to intensify the debate, arguing not that the events necessarily took place, but that the evidence for their taking place has been denied a fair hearing.
