Papers originally presented at a conference held Mar. 5-6, 1999, at Monticello and the University of Virginia. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The ghosts of Monticello / Gordon S. Wood -- Hemings and Jefferson: redux / Winthrop D. Jordan -- Interracial sex in the Chesapeake and the British Atlantic world, c. 1700-1820 / Philip D. Morgan -- James Callender and social knowledge of interracial sex in antebellum Virginia / Joshua D. Rothman -- Monticello stories old and new / Rhys Isaac -- The white Jeffersons / Jan Ellen Lewis -- Bonds of memory: identity and the Hemings family / Lucia Stanton and Dianne Swann-Wright -- "Denial is not a river in Egypt" / Clarence Walker -- Presidents, race, and sex / Werner Sollors -- Our Jefferson / Jack N. Rakove -- "The memories of a few negroes": rescuing America's future at Monticello / Annette Gordon-Reed.
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