Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy is a book written by Annette Gordon-Reed in 1997 which had become controversial. It talked about the life of Thomas Jefferson and investigated the rumored relationships which had been tackled by historians and the testimony of the black descendants. This book posed challenged on the analysis of the historical issue, reconstructing earlier version and featuring errors, misunderstandings and prejudices. Reed had investigated and swept legal documents, memoirs and journals, farm books, scripts, wills, old gazettes, archives and other necessary documents that gave information not only about Sally but of the entire Hemings family from anonymity. In almost eight hundred pages, Reed narrated the lives of the four generation of the Hemingses stating when their ancestors who settled in Virginia in 1700s through 1826 during the death of
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Definitely, Jefferson is the personification of America and it was illustrated on the discussion of the issue on miscegenation. Most people identified the country with Jefferson and on the idea of mixed races- black and white. Indeed, there was the notion of not including the blacks ad it is just a manifestation that it has been part of human’s resentment. There was a sense of hostility in the story and Gordon-Reed use it as a metaphor of the truth in the feature of the human nature. The author utilized it because emblematically it is a relevant concern of people. In fact one of the critics of the book, Nathan Huggins, expressed that the inclusion of Sally Hemings is an approach of establishing the birthright of the black people in the country. This had added to the reason why the story has become more controversial, the incorporation of the black culture into the story could give an impression that when the story is rejected by the public, then it basically means that the black people are rejected in
Definitely, Jefferson is the personification of America and it was illustrated on the discussion of the issue on miscegenation. Most people identified the country with Jefferson and on the idea of mixed races- black and white. Indeed, there was the notion of not including the blacks ad it is just a manifestation that it has been part of human’s resentment. There was a sense of hostility in the story and Gordon-Reed use it as a metaphor of the truth in the feature of the human nature. The author utilized it because emblematically it is a relevant concern of people. In fact one of the critics of the book, Nathan Huggins, expressed that the inclusion of Sally Hemings is an approach of establishing the birthright of the black people in the country. This had added to the reason why the story has become more controversial, the incorporation of the black culture into the story could give an impression that when the story is rejected by the public, then it basically means that the black people are rejected in