The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy

he following are some of the principal resources presenting both sides, pro and con, of this controversy.

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The Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter

Thirteen eminent scholars found that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings's children.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Research Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy

An in-house committee of scholars determined that there is "a high probability that Thomas Jefferson fathered Eston Hemings, and that he most likely was the father of all six of Sally Hemings's children."

Research Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: A Critical Analysis

An analysis and refutation of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's report on this controversy.

BOOKS

The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty.   Presented by The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.   Charlottesville, Va.: Jefferson Editions, 2001.   11.95 paperback   ISBN: 0-934211-66-3

A thorough review of the evidence for and against the alleged patenity by Thomas Jefferson of Sally Hemings's children, and a description of the ways evidence exonerating Jefferson was ignored, suppressed, and even falsified in the recent revival of these issues.

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : An American Controversy, by Annette Gordon-Reed.   Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1998.   13.45 paperback   ISBN: 0813918332

An examination of the evidence related to allegations of a Jefferson-Hemings affair, and the way this evidence has been treated by historians in the past.

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