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Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Pp. 798. $35.00 (ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2010

Jane Dailey
Jane Dailey*
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The University of Chicago
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dailey@uchicago.edu
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Law and History Review , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , November 2010 , pp. 1073 - 1076
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2010

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1. Quoted in Walker, Clarence, “Denial is Not a River in Egypt,” in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, ed. Lewis, Jan Ellen and Onuf, Peter S. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 187–98Google Scholar.

2. Eric Foner makes this claim in his review of The Hemingses of Monticello: “As to the precise nature of their relationship, the historical record is silent. … Gordon-Reed acknowledges that it is almost impossible to probe the feelings of a man and a woman neither of whom left any historical evidence (italics mine) about their relationship” (“The Master and the Mistress,” New York Times, October 3, 2008).