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CALL NUMBER: 973.4609 Da
OBJECT TYPE: Book
TITLE: The Jefferson Scandals A Rebuttal
DESCRIPTION: From the cover: This book, written in 1981, has since been partially disproved by DNA studies. Virginius Dabney was a prolific writer, and his ascerbic pen is only fueled here by his position as Editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. This book was one of many on the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings controversy. It mainly takes a wrecking ball to two “faction” and “psycho-history” books that first fanned the flames. That being said, it became one of the more believable books that Annette Gordon-Reed later used in her book on the topic, in that it revealed much information from which to draw. The rest, they say, is history. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Family, Monticello, Hemings Family, Carr Brothers, slavery
“A Rebuttal by Virginius Dabney, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian to allegations that Thomas Jefferson kept a black mistress and fathered five illegimate children”
AUTHOR: Dabney, Virginius
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PUBLICATION DATE: 1981
PUBLISHER: Dodd, Meade and Company
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: New York
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