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Thomas & Sally
Historian Annette Gordon Reed speaks with 18th Century History Guy Peter Onuf about Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. Reed proposes that historians have come to erroneous conclusions trying to “save” Jefferson’s reputation.
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Further Reading
- Read up on the origins and history of the idea of race.
- Peruse an excerpt from The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon Reed, which won the 2009 Pulitizer Prize in History.
- Watch Barack Obama’s March 2008 speech about race.
- Listen to the story of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that ended laws against intermarriage or read about it.