I agree, it did not tarnish or damage his reputation at all and it was the era.

It is the present that has to prove a point.  I'm still trying to figure out what the point was.  

Sally was not the main issue it was her children and if I remember correct the DNA proved they have the Jefferson family marker.  

Embrace it, let it go and lets move on.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sharon Peery<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] 11/15: LVA Book Talk - Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla


  The most interesting thing about this controversy is the
  degree of heat it still generates.  Now, as an outsider, I
  wonder why.
   
  Is it a belief that so pure a soul as Jefferson would have
  remained entirely chaste in the forty-odd years of life left to
  him after the death of his wife?  Is it a denial of the possibility
  that Jefferson failed to acknowledge biological children?  Or is
  this simply the old Southern attitude, that so high a character
  would not have contaminated himself by having sexual inter-
  course with a woman who was in part African?
   
  > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:01:13 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: 11/15: LVA Book Talk - Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > I sure am glad I don't live close enough to Richmond and the speech and the > author would hear some words from me. It has been proven to me and most around > Monticello who go there often as we used to do when living in Va. that DNA > proved Sally Hemings was not a descendant of one of our best and most > brilliant Presidents is being besmerched by a person who is not worth the paper his > writing are written on. > > We had very lengthy disgussions on this subject quite a number of years ago > and its time to stop this. The author and some of other so called investagators > of history have done great damage to a fine and brilliant President. I resent > this so called author's reporting after all the investigative reporting more > than 10 years ago. What an ego to think he knows more than all those people. > > Sarah Browder in Texas, a former Virginia resident. > > > > **************************************> See what's new at http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>
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