Opinion | Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage; New York Times

 

Why bother researching [history] if we are unwilling to allow ourselves to be surprised, informed and disabused of preconceptions of how a situation [Jefferson and Hemings] must have unfolded? — Professor Annette Gordon-Reed in the New York Times

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