Finkelman is another of those "slavery experts" including Monticello, Peter
Onuf (financed by Monticello),(Finkelman studied under him at UVA I
believe). Onuf edited the Oct 92 edition of Jeffersonian Legacies of which
Finkelman was a chapter author. The aim of this group (writers were Onuf,
Finkelman Monticello President, Dan Jordan, Jan Lewis, Lucia Stanton,
Monticello Chief Researcher, Gordon Wood, Scot French, Edward Ayers and
others) is according to a Prof. Richard Rorty on page 280, "setting aside
questions of HISTORICAL ACCURACY AND PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATION (my caps),
in order to sustain the present-day cause of international human rights."
Now do we understand why Monticello would remove "Memorial" from their
title, associate with such people as Onuf and Paul Finkelman and continue to
"instruct" other historians at the Smith Thomas Jefferson Research Center at
Monticello on the slavery issue and the mishandling of the DNA Study that
DID NOT prove that Thomas Jefferson fathered any slave child.
That NYT Prof. Paul Finkelman article is a disgrace to Mr Jefferson and
Monticello.
Herb Barger
Founder, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
www.tjheritage.org
www.jeffersondnastudy.com
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: [VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"
In the great tradition of "Let's you and him fight," what did list members
think of Paul Finkelman's NY Times opinion piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/opinion/the-real-thomas-jefferson.html?src
=recg&_r=0 ?
Ron Roizen
Wallace, Idaho
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