Ebook: Framing a legend: exposing the distorted history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- Tags: Paternity testing--United States, Paternity testing, Relations with slaves, Relations with women, Biography, Nonfiction, Case studies, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826 -- Relations with women, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826 -- Relations with slaves, Hemings Sally, Jefferson Thomas -- 1743-1826, Paternity testing -- United States -- Case studies, United States
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Prometheus Books
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
"It is accepted by most scholars that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children. This conclusion is based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed, assumed by many to be the last word on the subject. But as author M. Andrew Holowchak argues compellingly in this eye-opening investigation, the DNA evidence is inconclusive and there are remarkable flaws in the leading historical scholarship purporting to show such a liasion."--Jacket.