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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA

    I'm always struck by the fact that the Jefferson's parentage of Sally Heming's children was widely known and discussed by his contemporaries but denied by most academic historians until very recently.https://twitter.com/agordonreed/status/1130846879585955842 …

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    4) Louisa Adams, who hated TJ, was deeply upset. In a letter to JQA, she linked TJ’s hosting of the Native American women to Sally Hemings. “Perhaps this is the first step toward the introduction of the incomparable Sally.”, underlining "step" and "the incomparable Sally.
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      1. Nick Field‏ @nick_field90 21 May 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Dumas Malone spent about four decades on Jefferson and couldn't get himself to acknowledge what was staring him in his face

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      2. Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA‏Verified account @agordonreed 21 May 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Not everyone accepted it, but 18th Century people were pretty realistic about sex. People knew that men had mistresses. TJ was widowed at 39, & lived to 83. They wouldn’t have assumed he was celibate.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019
        Replying to @agordonreed

        yeah, it makes sense that denial was part of later Victorian (and even post-Victorian) prudery.

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      1. Jerome Nicolas‏ @jeromenicolas76 21 May 2019
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        I love that Ken Burns' 1997 documentary on Jefferson came out not long before the DNA evidence finally shattered the denial. It means that we get to see some Very Serious People scoff at the possibility and condemn even entertaining the idea.

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      1. Jeremy Parker‏ @astutepanther 21 May 2019
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        A 1976 episode of “The Jeffersons” referred to Jefferson & Hemings as historical fact, and I was shocked to discover 20 years later that Jefferson scholars were still denying it.https://youtu.be/JgzRn2euWnA?t=402 …

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      1. Ken Feinstein‏ @FeinsteinKen 21 May 2019
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        It's very similar to the Shakespeare Authorship Question. The very first thing ever printed about Shakespeare in 1592 made clear he didn't write the plays.pic.twitter.com/OtSMXQw76n

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      1. Cassandra Complex‏ @mxanthropology 21 May 2019
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        Theres a lo t of reasons for that. Past the obvious biases in favor of overly lionizing certain figures and racism, most (all I've known of)known contemporarh accounts were from people who would not have been out of place trying to besmirch his reputation.

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      1. Uatu the Watcher‏ @UatuAndStan 21 May 2019
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        Right? His opponents tried to make it a scandal and he laughed it off.

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