Yes, and it is in many publications but this doesn't change the fact
that it is NOT true, but much of the media is involved in this agenda. I
tell the readers that this book and other similar recent books is part
of an agenda and there is NO proof that TJ fathered any slave child.
Please consult: www.tjheritage.org for a full Scholars Commission Report
(13 top scholars), who found NO proof of this liaison, SO may we not ask
the author........what is your agenda and who is behind it.......not
that I don't know the answer and have for several years. That is why I
founded the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society.....to counter the biased
research performed at Monticello and provide truthful and accurate
research to the public. We can use financial support at the above web
page address to continue our research.
Herbert Barger
Jefferson Family Historian
Asst. to Dr Foster on the DNA Study
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melinda Skinner
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Annette Gordon-Reed praised by Edmund Morgan
There's also an interesting article on the book in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=8220 The Hemingses of
Monticello: An American Family 8221 (Norton 36 35)
--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
> Posted at History News Network, Monday, September 22, 2008 Annette
> Gordon-Reed : Edmund Morgan calls her one of the best historians of
her
> generation <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/54782.html>
>
> Source: *Marie Morgan and Edmund S. Morgan in the New York Review of
Books
> in the course of a review of Annette Gordon-Reed's new book, The
Hemingses
> of
>
Monticello*<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?utm_medium=email&utm_s
ource=Ca
>
mpaign+Monitor&utm_content=91964597&utm_campaign=Joseph+Lelyveld+on+John
+%26+Sar
>
ah%2c+Michael+Chabon+on+Obama&utm_term=Jefferson%26%238217%3bs+Concubine
>(10-9-0
> 8)
>
> The Hemingses of Monticello is a brilliant book. It marks the author
as one
> of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this
> generation. Not least of Annette Gordon-Reed's achievements is her
ability
> to bring fresh perspectives to the life of a man whose personality and
> character have been scrutinized, explained, and justified by a host of
> historians and biographers. They have struggled to illuminate, and
sometimes
> to gloss over, the dark places in his life. Like many upright public
figures
> who know they are pure and their enemies vile, he was capable of
deviousness
> and treachery. He instigated the savage attacks by the anti-Federalist
> National Gazette editor Philip Freneau on John Adams, once his fast
friend,
> and was flummoxed rather than ashamed at being caught out paying
Freneau to
> be his mouthpiece. Such actions gave rise in Jefferson biographies to
> characterizations like "enigma" and "sphinx."
>
> The full review is at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21855?email
>
> --
> Jon Kukla
> www.JonKukla.com
>
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