![]() ![]() ![]() She justifies this legalistic tone in her preface by pointing out that historians often use legal phrases when debating the controversy, but that doesn't make this dry presentation of the facts any more readable. While her account is reasoned and logical, Gordon-Reed is a law professor (at New York Law School) who writes like a lawyer. Gordon-Reed takes on the historians who would deny that Thomas Jefferson had a 38-year relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves, and she does so both by presenting historical evidence of that relationship and by critiquing their denials. ![]()
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