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Visiting Harvard Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed hosted a panel discussion yesterday evening about U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with slave Sally Hemings.
Despite the amount of research she did on the subject, Gordon-Reed said that writing about the Jefferson-Hemings dynamic was no easy task.
During the panel discussion that followed, Gordon-Reed explained the significance of acknowledging different accounts of Jefferson from the slave children that he fathered with Hemings, rather than relying on the accounts of white men who had no respect for the slaves.
Brandon C. Slaughter, a teacher at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, Mass. and a descendant of Jefferson and Hemings, said he found the discussion interesting.
University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper...