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Preface Acknowledgments Members of the Scholars Commission Scholars Commission on The Jefferson-Hemings Matter, Report 12 April 2001
Summary Report of the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter Introduction Background to the Controversy The Scholars Commission Assessing the Evidence Assessing the Arguments Conclusions Minority Report
Individual Views of Scholars Commission Members Individual Views of Professor Robert F. Turner joined by Professor Alf J. Mapp, Jr., Professor David N. Mayer, Professor Forrest McDonald, and Professor Thomas Traut Introduction - The Sally Hemings Scandal and the Origins of the Scholars Commission
Professor Gordon-Reed and "Transcription Errors" Feeding Frenzy About the Scholars Commission
1 - Understanding the DNA Evidence Linking Eston Hemings to Thomas Jefferson's Cousins
The Clinton Impeachment Factor The DNA Tests Conclusions
2 - The Enigmatic Sally Hemings: So Few Facts, So Much Fantasy and Speculation
Sally's Birth and Arrival at Monticello Abigail Adams' Observations about Sally Hemings Sally Hemings in Paris Sally Hemings at Monticello Thomas Jefferson's Known Statements about Sally Hemings Sally Hemings' Known Statements about Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings' Children Substituting Speculation for Scholarship Was Sally Hemings Monogamous? Sally Hemings' Life after Thomas Jefferson's Death Sally's Alleged Child "Thenia"
3 - James Thomson Callender and the Origins of the 1802 Jefferson-Hemings Scandal 4 - Madison Hemings' 1873 "Memoir" in the Pike County Republican
Madison Could Not Have Known Whether Key Parts of His Story Were True The Words of the Story Are Likely Those of an Anti-Jefferson Editor Madison Was the Only Member of His Family to Claim that Thomas Jefferson Was Their Father Portions of Madison's Story Are Inconsistent with Known Facts Other Parts of the Story Are Very Difficult to Believe The Gordon-Reed Alterations to the Wetmore Article The Statement Attributed to Israel Jefferson Conclusions Addendum: The Ellis Revelations
5 - Thomas Jefferson's Visitation Patterns to Monticello and Their Correlation with Sally Hemings' Conceptions
"Junk Science" The One-Father Assumption Stacking the Deck Cause and Effect Where Was Sally? Cause or Catalyst? Monticello Was "Shut Up" When Jefferson Was Away Old Age and Fecundity
6 - "Extraordinary Privileges" for Sally Hemings and Her Children
The Real Explanation for "Special Treatment"
7 - The Physical Resemblance of Some of Sally Hemings' Children to Thomas Jefferson
Known Children of Sally Hemings
8 - Reassessing the Oral Tradition of Sally Hemings' Descendants
The Eston Hemings Family Oral Tradition Asserted Thomas Jefferson Was Not Eston's Father Shortcomings of Oral Traditions Thomas Jefferson's "Other" Black Children Other Monticello Slave Accounts Make No Reference to the Alleged Jefferson-Hemings Affair
9 - Miscellaneous Arguments Said to Support Thomas Jefferson's Paternity of Sally Hemings' Children
"Psychohistory" and Jefferson's Use of the Term Mulatto Opinions of Jefferson's Friends and Neighbors Verdict of the American People Why Jefferson Never Publicly Denied the Callender Charges Ohio Census, Rumors, and Newspaper Allegations Thomas Jefferson as Music Teacher to His Slaves Did Jefferson "Train" Sally's Children to Marry Whites? The Alleged "Closeness" of Sally's Children The Absence of Letters and References to Sally and the Great Coverup Using the Absence of Information as Evidence Does the Fact that Sally Hemings Apparently Did Not Bear Children by Other Slaves Imply Thomas Jefferson's Misconduct? French Law Governing Slaves
10 - Revisionist Arguments Reconsidered: Evidence Too Quickly Dismissed?
The Testimony of Edmund Bacon The Accounts of Thomas Jefferson's Relatives The Assessment of Sally Hemings by Abigail Adams and Andrew Ramsay The Mysterious Thomas Hemings Other Possible Fathers The Issue of the Timing of Sally's Conceptions
11 - The "Silent Dogs" and Other Issues Ignored by Most Revisionist Scholars
The Missing Evidence that Ought to Exist Problems with Some Implicit Assumptions of Revisionist Scholars Would Thomas Jefferson Have Entrusted His Reputation to the Discretion of Sally Hemings? Was Sally Hemings Thomas Jefferson's "Type"? Why Did Sally Not Confirm the Relationship after Jefferson's Death? Why Did None of Sally's Children Confirm the Relationship During the Four Decades after Jefferson's Death? With One Problematic Exception, Other Monticello Slaves Did Not Confirm the Allegation To Accept This Story, We Must Dismiss the Oral Tradition of Eston Hemings' Family and Accept Instead the Unsupported Allegations of Vile Racists Like James Callender and Thomas Gibbons Why Did Thomas Jefferson Not Free Sally in His Will?
Individual Views of Professor Jean M. Yarborough, joined by Professor Charles Kessler and Professor Harvey C. Mansfield 12 - Individual Views of Jean M. Yarborough, Charles Kessler, and Harvey C. Mansfield Individual Views of Professor Lance Banning 13 - Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Case Closed? Individual Views of Professor Robert H. Ferrell 14 - Individual Views of Professor Robert H. Ferrell Individual Views of Professor David N. Mayer 15 - The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History
Introduction Evolution of the Myth Myth vs. History: Oral Tradition as Unreliable Evidence Broader Context of the Myth Today: The Assault on Standards The Flawed Case for the Jefferson-Hemings Story The Implausibility of the Story Denials by Jefferson Himself and Virtually All His Contemporaries Jefferson's Character Conclusion
Individual Views of Professor Forrest McDonald 16 - Individual Views of Professor Forrest McDonald Individual Views of Professor Thomas Traut 17 - Does the DNA Analysis Establish Thomas Jefferson's Paternity of Sally Hemings' Children?
Background on DNA Analysis Strategy of the DNA Analysis Results of the DNA Analysis by Foster et al . Interpretation of the DNA Analysis by Foster et al . Conclusion Notes
Statement of Playwright Karyn Traut 18 - Thomas Jefferson: Brother's Keeper
A Playwright's Progress Additional Sources
Minority Views of - Professor Paul A. Rahe 19 - Minority Views of Professor Paul A. Rahe Editor's Postscript: - Reactions to the Scholars Commission Report 20 - Editor's Postscript: Reactions to the Scholars Commission Report
The Press Conference The Monticello Association Vote The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello) Reaction of Scholars Multiculturalism and Thought Reform in America Conclusion
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