Speaking of John Adams, I suppose that many of us saw the recent HBO
series on him. Do you recall the final death scenes of Thomas Jefferson
in which they "just had to project" the Sally Hemings issue into the
final death bed scene. A person identified as Sally Hemings was shown
and identified. She was there at the time but so was his daughters and
other close relatives, his doctor, etc. Why was Sally singled out to
"magnify"? 

Herb

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3 cheers for young John!

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
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>>> Kevin Gutzman <[log in to unmask]> 07/17/08 9:56 AM >>>
Re:  John Adams and "Victorian" sexual attitudes, I recall that he 
counseled a far younger man that the best thing about marriage was "the 
copulation."  Doesn't sound very Victorian to me!

Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Western Connecticut State University

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