Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson by Peter Onuf

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson by Peter Onuf

A discussion of the probability (shown by DNA tests) that Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings's children. The essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings has raised about American history and national culture.

James Horn is Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and author of Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.

Jan Ellen Lewis is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate History Program at Rutgers University, the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family Values in Jefferson's Virginia, and coeditor with Peter S. Onuf of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Virginia).

Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (Virginia).

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ISBN 13	9780813919195
ISBN 10	0813919193
Title	Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
Author	Peter Onuf
Series	Jeffersonian America
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Virginia Press
Year published	1999-10-30
Number of pages	325
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