Herbert,
I am quite accustomed to your nasty replies anytime anyone praises those who
disagree with you. Why you cannot just agree to disagree is beyond me.
The fact that you can find NO proof that TJ fathered the children in
question does not establish for a fact that he did not. It just means it has
not been proven to your satisfaction. And, I feel quite certain that if you
were faced with DNA evidence that Madison Hemings was fathered by a
Jefferson male, you would go out of your way to argue it wasn't Tom.
The fact that TJ is a Founding Father does NOT establish his sainthood. All
of the Founding Fathers had flaws in character. Ben Franklin is probably my
personal favorite Founding Father, and yet he publically admitted he father
a child - a son that he raised to commit the same faux paus as his father,
so that in his old age, Ben was raising that same grandson born out of
wedlock. Ben was willing to admit his "mistakes" and did his best to make
them right. TJ seemed, too often, to hide his mistakes from public scrutiny.
What "honorable man" uses a writer to slander a friend, and then cries wolf
when the same writer peeks into his own affairs?
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Barger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Annette Gordon-Reed praised by Edmund Morgan
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melinda Skinner
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>>
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> +%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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