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The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

Finalist for the National Book Award, this epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until ver...  
 
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kassandrasduplex (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Like it or not folks, YOUR republic owes it's SOUL to Tho. Jefferson. A Jeffersonian republic seeks to diminish the superstition and tyranny of religion (Obama is continuing the Bush Faith Based garbage) and to expand public education for ALL who have the ability, FREE ( Obama continues the Bush privatization of our public education commons with the charter garbage and No Child.) Jefferson's detractors had better see who their friend really is and soon as the fate of this republic is at stake.
uniquesongstress (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Well it is as exact as it can be because a paternity test as well will never prove that a person is 100% the father. And as for his nephews, the Carr's were ruled out as the family because the Y chromosome didnt match.
kassandrasduplex (9 months ago) Show Hide
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"Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. ... But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. ... Our sister states of Pennsylvania and New York, however, have long subsisted without any establishment at all." Jefferson inspires the future establishment clause. Read his Notes on the State of Virginia then smear him, if U can.
bapyou (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Have you read the book since you posted your comments here? I don't see Gordon-Reed's book as a "smear" on Jefferson. Gordon-Reed is one of our foremost scholars of Jefferson.
kassandrasduplex (3 months ago) Show Hide
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I confess I have not read the Hemingses and don't intend to. I have read Jefferson's "Notes", am familiar with the story of his "Bible" and the Gospel of Thomas unlike his detractors. Neo-cons still run this country despite Bush's departure (one I had hoped Obama would prosecute but see he won't.) And the neo-cons dont like true revolutionaries for the cons are against the ideal of equality, as all true revolutions seek to achieve. (If not then overthrows are mere coups.)
bapyou (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Why do you feel Gordon-Reed is a Jefferson detractor? She is anything but.
kassandrasduplex (9 months ago) Show Hide
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After all the smearing of Jefferson for allegedly having a sexual affair with his slave, most people today couldn't name one of his progressive achievements. He predicted where we are right now in Notes on Virginia. I paraphrase, "The People will forget a due respect of their rights in the sole pursuit of making money."
PtrckSh (6 months ago) Show Hide
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All of your comments miss the mark entirely. The book is about the Hemingses. Jefferson, naturally, plays a crucial role in the story. Some of us see great value in the telling of that history as an end in itself.

If Thomas Jefferson deserves to remain an exalted figure in American history, as I very much believe he does, then let us tell history as it was and he will be judged charitably.
ekleston88 (9 months ago) Show Hide
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He wrote about absolute equality, but when in a position to act upon this belief i.e. by treating his slaves as equals, he rather used them as concubines and workers on his plantation. You should read the book and get a perspective on your comment. I entirely agree that Jefferson did alot of forward thinking and courageous things; Adrienne Koch says that Jefferson was 'innovative, speculative and bold', but only on the issues that did not effect himself
kassandrasduplex (9 months ago) Show Hide
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Were it not for Jefferson we wouldn't be having a conversation. He is, like it or not, the Father of the American Revolution and remains the first political philosopher to declare in an official revolutionary venue, the concept of equality among mankind (men!) He also nearly lost his home for his beliefs and remains one of the world's great PROGRESSIVE philosophers. Check out Jefferson's Bible and compare it to the Gospel of Thomas, unknown in Jefferson's day.

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