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334:, reporting on their analysis of DNA data from descendants of Jefferson, Eston Hemings, the Carr family and Thomas Woodson. Foster said that there was a match between the Jefferson line and that of the Hemings' descendant, for which, with historical evidence, the simplest explanation was that Jefferson was the father of Eston, and likely Hemings' other children. The DNA tests conclusively proved that the Carr line and descendant of Eston Hemings were not related. This overturned the more than 150 years' contention by the Jefferson family and historians that his nephews, the Carr(s), were more likely fathers. 352:
beyond any reasonable doubt that Jefferson had a longstanding sexual relationship with Sally Hemings. Even though the match is only with one of the Hemings' descendants, Eston Hemings, it's inconceivable that Jefferson, who was 65 when Eston was born, would have made a one-night stand here. I think this is a longstanding relationship. When it began and what the character of the relationship is we probably can't know easily or at all. But it was, without question, an enduring one.
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flimsy and wholly circumstantial character of the evidence. In that spirit, which we might call the spirit of responsible speculation, after five years mulling over the huge cache of evidence that does exist on the thought and character of the historical Jefferson, I have concluded that the likelihood of a liaison with Sally Hemings is remote.
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It's not so much a change of heart, but this is really new evidence. And itā€”prior to this evidence, I think it was a very difficult case to know and circumstantial on both sides, and, in part, because I got it wrong, I think I want to step forward and say this new evidence constitutes, well, evidence
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is a brief and elegant return to Monticello. Mr. Ellis...is a remarkably clear writer, mercifully free of both the groveling and the spirit of attack that have dominated the subject in the past....'American Sphinx' is fresh and uncluttered but rich in historical context." Like several of his other
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testing on Jefferson as well as some of his alleged progeny, it leaves the matter a mystery about which advocates on either side can freely speculate...This means that for those who demand an answer the only recourse is plausible conjecture, prefaced as it must be with profuse statements about the
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Ellis showed how Jefferson shied away from public attention. According to Ellis, Jefferson gave just two public speeches as President of the United States. Thomas Jefferson felt far more comfortable writing, to which the Declaration of Independence attests, than public speaking. He worked
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to survey the response of visitors to the results of the DNA tests. They found that "eighty percent of those polled were unmoved by findings they'd assumed all along were fact ... scholars not the public, it turned out, were the ones taken by surprise."
347:, DNA analysis shows that Jefferson almost certainly fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, her last son, Eston." Ellis, who was interviewed during this broadcast, said that he had revised his opinion due to this new evidence: 241:, was his uniquely "feminine" approach to politics. Detesting direct confrontation, he was a master "dinner table" politician. He was known for inviting his competitors to dinner to plant the seeds of his ideas and defuse controversies. 215:
He did not always speak exactly as he felt, either towards his friends or his enemies. As a consequence, he has left hanging over a part of his public life a vapor of duplicity..., the presence of which is generally felt more than it is
399:. Ellis said, "As one who had suggested that we could not know the truth, I felt a special obligation to take the lead when the DNA evidence finally made the truth available." In 2001 Ellis took students on a field trip to 384:
He noted, "In the wake of the DNA revelations, an already-clear pattern of denial in Jefferson's life is deepened and darkened." After the results of the DNA testing, Ellis published essays coauthored with the geneticist
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Ellis praises Thomas Jefferson's first term as one of the most successful of any US presidency in terms of achieving stated goals; in his first term, Jefferson made the
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In part because of Gordon-Reed's book, a team undertook a DNA study to try to settle the issue. In November 1998 Dr. Eugene Foster and his team published an article in
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She noted that historians had accepted Jefferson descendants' denials while overlooking significant evidence that supported the paternity thesis, such as
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by noting that Jefferson was always at Monticello during Hemings' conception times for her children, and she never conceived when he was not there.
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interview with Ellis about DNA evidence identifying Thomas Jefferson as the father of one of Sally Hemmings's children, November 7, 1998
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extensively behind the scenes with other politicians to accomplish his political programs and create alliances.
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ran a feature on this topic, reporting that, "according to an article in an upcoming issue of the journal
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Proposals for concerted operation among the powers at war with the Pyratical states of Barbary
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Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States
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Jefferson manuscript collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society
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was "inconclusive". Specifically, Ellis stated in the appendix to
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Ellis suggested in the text that evidence for an affair between
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Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.
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Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress,
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begins on June 20, 1775, with Jefferson's arrival in
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Index

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Vintage
Joseph Ellis
Knopf
hardcover
paperback
ISBN
0-679-44490-4
OCLC
34934008
Joseph Ellis
Mount Holyoke College
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Thomas Jefferson
Philadelphia
Colony of Virginia
Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Monticello
planter
Charles Francis Adams
Louisiana Purchase
John Adams
Brent Staples
New York Times Book Review
Jeffersonā€“Hemings controversy
Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation

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