{"id":4994,"date":"2010-02-04T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:42:55","slug":"the-monticello-mystery-case-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4994","title":{"rendered":"The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/oieahc.wm.edu\/wmq\/Oct01\/boulton.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William and Mary Quarterly<br \/>\nVolume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001)<br \/>\nReviews of Books<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.stevenson.edu\/directory\/bio\/boulton.cfm\">Alexander O. Boulton<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty<\/em>. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.)<\/p>\n<p><em>A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson<\/em>. By Byron W. Woodson, Sr. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xviii, 271.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Free Some Day: The African American Families of Monticello<\/em>, By Lucia Stanton. Monticello Monograph Series. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000. Pp. 192.)<\/p>\n<p>In October 1998 the announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> analysis identified <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> as the most likely father of a child by his slave <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Hemings\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Hemings<\/a> seemed to bring to a conclusion a historical debate that had been waging for years. Any remaining doubts about Jefferson&#8217;s paternity were apparently removed when the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson_Foundation\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson Foundation<\/a>, the organization that owns and operates Jefferson&#8217;s historic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlottesville,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Charlottesville, Virginia<\/a>, home <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello<\/a>, issued a report soon afterward declaring that &#8220;the best evidence available suggests the strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had a relationship over time that led to the birth of one, and perhaps all, of the known children of Sally Hemings.&#8221; Several notable scholars of Jefferson quickly reversed their previous denials of the affair. A book on the subject issued by the University Press of Virginia and a Forum in the <em>William and Mary Quarterly<\/em>, both containing articles by leading historians, presented the new consensus &#8220;that virtually all professional historians will accept that Jefferson was the father of at least one of Sally Hemings&#8217;s children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, two new books have shattered the illusion that a kind of historical finality had been achieved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/oieahc.wm.edu\/wmq\/Oct01\/boulton.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) 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