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Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- Title
- Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / M. Andrew Holowchak.
- Author
- Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958-
- Publication
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2013.
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- Description
- 296 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "It is accepted by most scholars that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children. This conclusion is based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed, assumed by many to be the last word on the subject. But as author M. Andrew Holowchak argues compellingly in this eye-opening investigation, the DNA evidence is inconclusive and there are remarkable flaws in the leading historical scholarship purporting to show such a liasion." -- Book jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Professor Robert F. Turner -- Preface -- pt. 1. THREE PROMINENT SPINS : -- Mining Jefferson's ore: Jefferson's forbidden females -- Controlling the discourse: Cutting down Jefferson to size -- Rationalizations and secrets: Jefferson's affair of convenience -- pt. 2: UNFRAMING THE LEGEND : -- The "tiresome" argument from character: A defense of moral impossibility -- High priests of the moral temple: Shifty science and "Aesopian history" -- A "convenient defect of vision": Jefferson's view of Blacks -- Appendix A: A transcript of Callender's 1802 article: "The President Again," by James Thomson Callender, in The Recorder; or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany, Published September 1, 1802 in Richmond, Virginia -- Appendix B: A transcript of Madison Heming's account -- Appendix C: Last will and testament of Thomas Jefferson.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-1103
- ISBN
- 9781616147297 (hbk : alk. paper)
- 1616147296 (hbk : alk. paper)
- 9781616147303 (ebook)
- 161614730X (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2012048876
- OCLC
- 818738066
- Author
- Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958-
- Title
- Framing a legend : exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / M. Andrew Holowchak.
- Publisher
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-1103