Paternity Studies
THE JEFFERSON HEMINGS MYTH: AN AMERICAN TRAVESTY
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How Thomas Jefferson was denigrated as a liar, fraud, hypocrite, and child molesting slave rapist based on a fallacious title from a simplistic DNA study published in the scientific journal Nature.
How the myth that accuses Thomas Jefferson of fathering children with Sally Hemings began with allegations made by a scurrilous scandalmonger as part of an unsuccessful blackmail scheme to force President Jefferson to appoint him to a government job.
How the results of a 1998 DNA study were overstated in such a way as to mislead the public into believing that scientific tests proved that Thomas Jefferson was the father of the last child of Sally Hemings, and therefore, all of her children, when the descendants of those children were not tested.
How information about other Jefferson males living in the vicinity of Monticello who could have been the father of Sally Hemings last child was kept from the news media and even omitted from some scholarly books.
How the descendants of Tom Woodson continue to maintain he was the son of Thomas Jefferson even though the DNA tests conclusively disproved this long-repeated family story.
How a staff research committee at Monticello ignored all the contrary evidence and suppressed a dissenting minority report in order to arrive at the conclusion that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of all Sally Hemings children.
Why a deceptive Monte Carlo statistical study indicating a high probability of Jefferson's guilt is based on inadequate evidence and is invalid.
Why, from a legal viewpoint, the case against Thomas Jefferson is deficient in any substantial evidence and completely without merit.
How a key letter written by Jefferson's granddaughter, Ellen Coolidge, was deliberately altered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed to reverse its clear meaning, and then reprinted and used as authority by other advocates of the Jefferson-Hemings myth.
Why a group of concerned citizens felt it necessary to form the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society in order to expose the false information being disseminated to destroy the reputation of the Founding Father who, as George Will said, "gave us our creed" and "defined the American mind".
Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (2001)
JEFFERSON VINDICATED: FALLACIES, OMISSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE HEMINGS GENEALOGICAL SEARCH
If you thought DNA proved Thomas Jefferson fathered a child of his slave Sally Hemings, a local Virginia researcher sheds new light on the old legend. The reader is re-introduced to the president's younger brother, Randolph Jefferson, and his sons; new findings that focus on the infamous, yet inconclusive DNA; Jefferson's health and his activities; accounts of witnesses; origin of the myth; and the possibility that Sally Hemings children were fathered by other men carrying the Jefferson Y chromosome are discussed. Numerous sources are examined in an attempt to resolve ambiguities and to determine relevance and credibility. The author follows the Hemingses in their trek west revealing little-known facts about an extraordinary family in their fulfillment of the "American dream". Along with the most thorough examination of the Sally Hemings controversy to date, new discoveries and details are revealed as never before available to the general public. As the subtitle implies, this volume exposes "fallacies, omissions, and contradictions in the Hemings genealogical search". This book is a must-have reference for everyone interested in the stories behind the headlines of a unique slave family and their relationship to a great American president.
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By Cynthia H Burton, with a Foreword by James A Bear Jr, 2005
IN DEFENSE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE SALLY HEMINGS SEX SCANDAL
Interview with William Hyland on C-SPAN
Reviewed by Thomas Lipscomb
Reviewed by Barbara Hollingsworth
by William G. Hyland Jr. Thomas Dunne Books, 2009
FRAMING A LEGEND: EXPOSING THE DISTORTED HISTORY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS
Reviewed by Richard Dixon
M. Andrew Holowchak, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, examines the epistemology used by Fawn Brodie, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Andrew Burstein, in their studies of the Jefferson-Hemings paternity claim...Read more
by M. Andrew Holowchak, Prometheus Books, 2013
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL: THOMAS JEFFERSON & THE SALLY STORY
This book is a long awaited and well-researched expose of the Martha Jefferson-Sally Hemings half-sister legend. Read more...
by Rebecca L. McMurry and James F. McMurry, Jr., M.D., foreword by David N. Mayer,
White Mane Publishing Co (2002)