Thanks Malinda. I believe the radio show is produced by Clay Jenkinson
in the Midwest, who portrays TJ in a most convincing fashion, I
understand. In my opinion the John Adams TV series should be faulted for
giving a close up of Sally Hemings, by name, as TJ lay on his death bed
but not that of his family. Movie and TV producers, some authors and
some "recent prominent minister in the media" use old early media
sensational false stories about TJ and are too lazy or have an agenda to
fulfill and do no in-depth research. Of course the old original biased
Monticello Study may lead them to that false conclusion because little
reference is made to the 13 member Scholars Commission who found no
proof of a TJ-Sally liaison. Dr. Jordan should get that straightened out
before he retires in November.
Herb Barger
Jefferson Family Historian
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] DNA In Jefferson-Hemings controversy
Off the subject... but on the subject of Jefferson...
Do any of you listen to "The Jefferson Hour" on public radio?
In Richmond, it's on WRIR every Tuesday from 11 am to noon.
There is also a web site: http://www.jeffersonhour.org/
I apologize if this is just too un-academic; but I find it delightful as
I'm driving in my car.
Lately, the talk has been much about John Adams (and his family) and
their ups and downs.
-Melinda
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Kevin Gutzman <[log in to unmask]>
> In response to Kevin Hardwick, I note that it was not Jefferson who
> discovered a way to reconcile slavery with Lockean liberalism, but the
May
> Convention of 1776 -- that interim ruling body of revolutionary
Virginia.
> It was that body that decided, in debating George Mason's draft
Declaration
> of Rights, not to come out and flatly claim that all men were born
free and
> equal and that government was to protect their rights, but instead
> interlineated Edmund Pendleton's phrase "when they enter into a state
of
> society" (or some such). As a result, Virginia from its birth was a
> society in which the blacks had not been parties to the social
compact;
> they had not "entered into a state of society," but had been kept as a
> captive nation. *Before* republican Virginia was established, its
leaders
> made this decision to have *both* a Lockean social compact *and*
slavery.
>
> I detail this development in chapter one of _Virginia's American
> Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840_ (Lexington Books,
2007).
>
> For Jefferson, the commitment to Lockean rights could only be squared
with
> the decision to keep blacks outside Virginia's social compact through
> colonization. I examine this issue in "Lincoln as Jeffersonian: The
> Colonization Chimera," in _Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the
> Politics of Race_, ed. Brian Dirck (Northern Illinois University
Press,
> 2007).
>
> Kevin Gutzman
>
> Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of History
> Western Connecticut State University
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