The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy by Robert F Turner

Author:Robert F Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Legal History, History
ISBN: 9780890890851
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Footnotes

1. FAWN BRODIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON 229 (1974).

2. Id.

3. Garry Wills, Uncle Thomas’s Cabin, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, Apr. 18, 1974 at 27.

4. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Research Committee, Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, January 2000 [hereinafter referred to as Monticello Report] at 7.

5. Id. (Emphasis added.)

6. ELLIS, AMERICAN SPHINX 180.

7. THE RECORDER (Richmond), Sept. 29, 1822.

8. Monticello Report, Appendix E at 4. See also, JOSEPH ELLIS, AMERICAN SPHINX 180 (1997).

9. JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO 84, 102, 117 (James A. Bear, Jr., ed., 1967).

10. Monticello Report, Appendix F at 4.

11. Id.

12. FAWN M. BRODIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON 361 (1974).

13. ELLIS, AMERICAN SPHINX 366 (1997). The Monticello Report notes that historian Page Smith interprets Adams’ statement as reflecting a belief that the allegations were true. (Monticello Report, Appendix F at 4.) This is because Adams added that “Callender and Sally will be remembered as long as Jefferson, as blots in his character. The story of the latter is a natural and almost unavoidable consequence of that foul Contagion in the human Character, Negro Slavery.” But these comments pertain not to the truth of the accusations, but rather to Adams’ expectation that the Callender charges would be believed by some because it was well known that some slave owners did sexually exploit their female slaves.

14. ELLIS, AMERICAN SPHINX 261.

15. Id. at 366.

16. Monticello Report, Appendix F at 4.

17. Id. at 5.

18. ANNETTE GORDON-REED, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS 215 (1997).

19. 2 JEFFERSON’S MEMORANDUM BOOKS 1271 (James A. Bear, Jr. & Lucia C. Stanton, eds. 1997).

20. 20 THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 51 (Mem. ed. 1905).

21. 2 JEFFERSON’S MEMORANDUM BOOKS 1299, 1304.

22. DUMAS MALONE, JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME: THE SAGE OF MONTICELLO 253 (1981).

23. This is no more difficult to accept than much of the “evidence” revisionist scholars ask us to accept, including that Jefferson would have carried on this relationship in settings where his daughters were likely to learn of it.

24. S. Allen Chambers, Jr., Of the Best Quality, VIRGINIA CAVALCADE 38, 158–71 (1989). The “Old Sachem” appellation came from fellow University of Virginia board member Joseph Cabell. MALONE, THE SAGE OF MONTICELLO 365.

25. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., A Young Scholar’s Glimpses of the Charlottesville Academy and the University in August 1819, MAGAZINE OF THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 54, 82 (1996).

26. 2 JEFFERSON’S MEMORANDUM BOOKS 1271 n.96.

27. I am indebted to Ms. Pauli Abeles, who found this information in a manuscript written by Sargent she had borrowed from one of his relatives while she was doing genealogical research on an unrelated issue.

28. Monticello Report, Appendix F at 5.

29. S. N. RANDOLPH, THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 268 (1871).

30. Interestingly, Thomas Gibbons later became the petitioner in another landmark Supreme Court opinion by John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. (22 U.S.) 1 (1824), concerning the scope of the federal commerce power.

31. Gibbons to Dayton, Dec. 20, 1802. The original of this letter is located in the Jonathan Dayton Papers in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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