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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: an American controversy

by
Annette Gordon-Reed

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Index




A

Abolitionists, role in disseminating the Hemings story, 
    3, 8, 66, 82-83, 94-955, 211-212 
Adair, Douglass, 3, 67, 180, 243; on Harriet 
    Hemings's departure from Monticello, 
    33, 203-4; on Sally Hemings, 86, 201, 204; 
    on paternity of the Hemings children, 
    92, 101, 102, 205; theory about why the Hemings
    children went free, 201-4, 208, 243; shares 
    "The Jefferson Scandals" with scholars before publication, 
    185, 206; reconstructs Peter Carr-Sally Hemings relationship, 
    204-5, 206; dissatisfied with "The Jefferson Scandals," 205 
Adams, Abigail, 160-63, 183, 189 
Adams, John, 16o, 189 
Aggey, baby-sitter for the first Harriet Hemings, 195, 219 
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 
    sponsors mock trial of TJ, 105 
Ayers, Edward L., Jr., 4 



B

Bacon, Edmund, 20, 163, 187, 242; on Sally Hemings, 
    20, 163, 178; on Harriet Hemings's departure 
    from Monticello, 27-30, 33-34; fails to mention
    TJ's emancipation of Madison and Eston Hemings, 36; 
    historians accept his statements about the paternity 
    of the Hemings children, 47, 92-93;
    denies TJ's paternity of the Hemings children, 92-93 
Banneker, Benjamin, 139-40 
Bear, James A., 173-74 
Bell, Thomas, 136, 168, 172 
Beverley, Elizabeth, 197 
Beverley, William, 197-98 
Blanchard, Jean Pierre, 152 
Boyd, Julian, 8 
Brant, Irving, 118, 144 
Brodie, Fawn, 3-4; use of Freudian analysis, 
    414, 48, 1ll, 125; on resemblance of Hemings 
    children to TJ, 50; on Tom Hemings, 68, 72;
    arguments mischaracterized, 111-12; on beginnings of 
    TJ-Hemings relationship, 112; 172-73; differs with Callender 
    on TJ and Hemings, 113-14, 119; accused of engaging 
    in presentism, 14-16; on the Walker affair, 
    142-44, 146, 154; on Sally Hemings, 159-60, 163, 181, 209;
    historians attitude toward, 169, 225, on nature of 
    relationship between TJ and Hemings, 169, 171, 175, 180; 
    on Capt. Ramsey and Sally Hemings, 171; hints at destruction 
    of TJ's correspondence to hide liaison, 175-76; 
    on the conception of Madison Hemings, 196; suggests that TJ
    celebrated Eston Hemings's birth, 196; on choice of the name 
    "Beverley" for Sally Hemings's son, 197; on Thomas Eston Randolph,199; 
    says that Martha Randolph freed Sally Hemings, 206; 
    popularity of her biography of TJ, 228 
Burwell, Rebecca, 121-22 
Burr, Aaron, 158 
Burnstein, Andrew, 18-19, 81, 86, 98-99, 107, 124-25 



C

Callender, James, 242; first publisher of Hemings 
    allegation, 1, 59, 186; on "President Tom;" 
    24, 25, 61-62, 67, 70, 77; historians' strategy
    regarding, 59, 65, 66, 75-76, 77, 78; character of, 
    59, 60-61, 70; relationship with TJ, 59-61, 76; 
    revolted by miscegenation, 61, 113; on Sally Hemings, 61-62; 
    method of operation, 62, 76; on Alexander Hamilton, 62; 
    motivations of, 62; likely informants, 63, 72, 74; 
    feuds with Federalist editor over the Hemings allegation, 64-65; 
    on the number of Sally Hemings's children, 73, 215-16; 
    relations with David Meade Randolph, 74-75; 
    compared to Fawn Brodie, 114; set the tone for scholars' 
    characterizations of the Hemings allegation, 119 southern and
    northern responses to Callender, 123-24; effect of attacks on life at
    Monticello, 124; influence on Sally Hemings, 204 
Campbell, Charles, 178, 221 
Carr, Dabney, 4, 53 
Carr, Martha, 4, 53 
Carr, Peter, 2; named as father of Sally Hemings's children, 23-24, 79,
    92, 94, 99; cited by T. J. Randolph as lover of Sally Hemings, 70; said
    to have confessed paternity of the Hemings children, 79, 87; and the
    conception of the Hemings children, 86, l00, 101 death of, 93; treatment
    by historians, 98; lack of extrinsic evidence to support claim of
    paternity, 103; and James Madison, 200; names of his children, 200-201;
    relationship with Hemings reconstructed by Adair,204-5 
Carr, Samuel: named as father of the Hemings children, 23-24, 78, 79,
    89, 94, 102,106; T. J. Randolph cites as lover of Betsey Hemings, 79;
    reputation of, 79, 90-91; and the conceptions of Hemings children, 86,
    l00, 101 death of, 93; treatment by historians, 98; lack of extrinsic
    evidence to support claim of paternity, 103; children's names,	200-201 
Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 4, 14, 181-82, 244 
Cocke, John Hartwell, 119, 215 
Colbert, Burwell, 36, 38, 39 
Coolidge, Ellen Randolph: tells husband that Samuel Carr was father of
    the Hemings children, 2, 79, 83, 89; on TJ's "principle" of allowing
    slaves who were white enough to pass for white to go free, 53-54, 222;
    discusses Hemings allegation with T. J. Randolph, 55, 79; disdain for
    Samuel Carr, 79, 91 on how T. J. Randolph came to know that Samuel Carr
    was the father of the Hemings children, 87-88; makes no mention of
    confession by Peter Carr, 88-89; vague nature of statements about the
    Hemings controversy, 89-90, 92, 94; T. J. Randolph as source for
    information about the Hemings story, 89-90; Virginius Dabney on, 90;
    relationship with TJ, 94; status confers presumption of believability,
    94-96, 97-98, 103, 222-23, 241, 247 
Coolidge, Joseph, 258; correspondence from Ellen Coolidge about the
    Hemings story, 87-88 sway, Maria, 118, 123, 179, 184-87, 191-93 



D

Dabney, Virginius: as relative of the Jeffersons, the Carrs, and the
    Hemingses, 4; writes The Jeferson Scandals to debunk the
    Hemings story, 4,14; response to Madison Hemings,14, 20-22; on Edmund
    Bacon, 37; supports Ellen Coolidge, 90; cites Samuel Carr as likely
    father of the Hemings children, lot; accepts Malone's "character
    defense" of TL 107; on possible destruction of TJ's correspondence, 176;
    on Hemings's pregnancy upon leaving France, 180, 243 
Daily Scioto Gazette, article about Eston Hemings, 15, 16, 18, 149 
Daniels, Jonathan, 20-21, 180
Days, Drew, 105 
Dayton, Jonathan, 171 
Dos Passos, John, 184-85 
Douglass, Frederick, 159 
Dupri, Madame, 175, 189 
Durey, Michael, 175 
"Dusky Sally," 24 



E

Eppes, Elizabeth, 160, 162, 183 
Eppes, Francis, 160, 162, 163-64 
Eppes, Francis (grandson of TJ), 178-79 
Eppes, John Eppes, 29, 178 Eppes, Mary Jefferson (Polly, Maria), 1, 23,
    130; and trip to Paris with Sally Hemings, 160-64, 177-78, 181, 192,
    199, 241 



F

Fairfax, Lord, 197-78 Fairfax Line, 197 
Faulkner, William, 140 Federalists, role in disseminating the Hemings
    story, 2, 3, 63-66, 74, 82, 143, 144, 256 
Floyd, Catherine (Kitty), 112 
Fossett, Joe, 36, 38, 39 
French, Scot A., 4 



G

Garrett, Alexander, 132 
George III, l06 
Gibbons, Thomas, 171- 72, 219 
Goliah, 68 



H

Hackley, Harriet Randolph, 199 
Hackley, Richard, 199 
Hackley, William Beverley, 199 
Hamilton, Alexander, 62, 76, 158, 217 
Hemings, Betsey, 91-92, 254, 255 
Hemings, Beverley, 2, 239; departure from Monticello, 25-26, 33, 36, 58;
    Madison Hemings on, 25, 45; chooses to live as a white man, 27,149;
    training at Monticello, 40,149,154, 218; violinist, 51; legal whiteness
    of, 53-57; TJ does not formally emancipate, 56-57; described as well
    known in Charlottesville, 73, 75; as possible "President Tom," 76-77;
    ascends balloon, 151-52; conception and birth of, 195; significance of
    his full name, 196-198 
Hemings, Critta, 25, 218, 239, 245 
Hemings, Elizabeth (Betty): mistress of John Wayles, 1, 23, 128,164;
    mother of Sally Hemings,1, 23; mother of John Hemings, 23, 50; seen as
    reason for TJ's treatment of Sally Hemings's children, 46-47; and Martha
    Wayles Jefferson, 128-30; TJ sends word to about James Hemings, 177,
    239, 245 
Hemings, Eston: freed by TJ's will, 2, 38, 39-43, 202, 213; residents of
    Chillicothe talk about connection to TJ, 14, 211; as professional
    violinist, 15, 51; resemblance to TJ noted, 15; comments on Hemings
    story, 15; statue of Jefferson said to resemble, 15; popularity of in
    Chillicothe, 16; descriptions of, 16, 54; chooses to live as a white
    man, 18-19 57; training at Monticello, 40, 218; leaves Monticello soon
    after TJ's death, 42, 57-58; legal whiteness of, 53-57; TJ petitions
    legislature to allow to remain in Virginia, 57-58, 222; conception and
    birth of, 196; full name Of, 197, 239; significance of name, 199-201,
    211; relationship with Thomas Jefferson Randolph after TJ's death, 209;
    shared experiences with siblings, 218-21 
Hemings, Harriet (first daughter of Sally Hemings), 68, 73; shared name
    with members of the Randolph family, 75, 199; conception, birth, and
    death of, 195; attended by Aggey and Edy,195, 219 
Hemings, Harriet (third daughter of Sally Hemings), 2; Madison Hemings
    on departure from Monticello, 24, 26-27; chooses to live as a white
    woman, 27, 45, 148, 149; Fdmund Bacon on, 27-29; TJ involved in her
    departure from Monticello, 27-31, 219; historians explain TJ's
    emancipation of, 31-33; conflicting accounts of destination after
    Monticello, 33; training at Monticello, 33, 150; gossip about, 34, 72;
    Madison Hemings on, 45-46; legal whiteness of, 53-57; shares name with
    members of Randolph family, 75,199; Douglass Adair on, 203-4, 239, 246 
Hemings, James: in Paris with TJ, 1, 164; trained as a chef in France,
    1, 39; declines to return to the United States, 24, 173-75; historians
    suggest was likely contact for Harriet Hemings in Philadelphia, 32,
    203-4; suicide of, 32, 39; trained younger brother Peter, 39; literacy
    Of, 149; hires French tutor, 163; unrestricted movement of, 163, 165; TJ
    sends word to Elizabeth Hemings about, 177; returns to the United
    States, 180; Adair on TJ's emancipation of, 202, 240 
Hemings, Jamey, 25-26, 36, 240 
Hemings, John: Sally Hemings's sons apprenticed to, 22, 40, 218; freed
    by TJs will, 36, 38-39; master carpenter and joiner at Monticello, 38;
    TJ's bequest of the services of Madison and Eston Hemings to, 39, 41 43;
    son of Joseph Neilson and Elizabeth Hemings, 50; literary of, 149, 240,
    248 
Hemings, Madison: recounts family history, 2, 7,12, 23-27, 33, 43-46,
    58, 150 51, 154, 173-74, 206; historians' characterizations of and
    responses to, 7-22, 34-37, 46-51. 78-79, 82-83, 84, 87, 93, 94-98, 2112,
    213; life in Ohio, 9, l1-12, 14-15, 248; described by S. E Wetmore,
    13, 16; apprenticed to John Hemings, 22, 39-43, 150,156; description of
    and attitude toward TJ, 43-45, 147-5o; description of and relationship
    with siblings, 45-46, 221; as vio lin player, 50; conception and birth
    of, 195-96, 240, 247; named "James Madison" by Dolley Madison, 197,
    247; relationship with the Randolphs after TJ's death, 209; children of,
    248 
Hemings, Mary, 136, 168, 171 
Hemings, Peter, 39, 47, 240, 245 
Hemings, Robert, 47, 201-2, 240, 245 
Hemings, Sally, 240, 245; accompanies Mary Jefferson to Paris, 1,
    23, 160-62; daughter of John Wayles, 1 49, 73, 128,164; rumors about
    affair with TJ, 1, 40-41, 4243, 60-61, 222; Callender publishes
    allegation of affair with TJ, 1, 59; children of, 2, 23, 26, 30, 38, 73,
    75, 76-77, 85; TJ's chambermaid, l0, 214, 219; novel about, 14, 181-84;
    historians suggest fabricated story of liaison with TJ, 18, 201-4;
    likely effect of experiences in France, 20-21; age at arrival in France,
    23, 160; alleged origins of relationship with TJ, 23; conception of child
    in France, 23, 24, 67; alleged relationship with Carr brothers, 24, 55,
    78-79, 88-89; declines to return to the United States, 24, 173-75;
    Madison Hemings on TJs promise to free her children at age twenty-one,
    24; Edmund Bacon on children's paternity, 28-29, 35, 92-93; and Harriet
    Hemings's departure from Monticello, 31-33; historians deny special
    status of, 46-48, 86; possible resemblance to Martha Jefferson, 49,191;
    evidence of special status, 51-53, 193-94,195, 219; Callender's
    hostility toward, 61 62, 63; character of, 64,183; informally freed
    after TJ's death, 66; seen as protecting Tom Hemings, 71; bears children
    after Callender crisis, 72; TJ at Monticello for conception of children,
    80, 84, 99-10l; conceived no children in TJs absence,101-2 2,115-16;
    concern about her age at alleged seduction, 111-113, 190;
    characterizations of, 113-14; possible answer to TJ's predicament, 118;
    and Martha Jefferson, 129,160, 187, 190o,191-92; TJ's racism and,
    133-35, 135 37,140-41; appearance of, 135-35, 16o; possible formal
    instruction in France,149; implications of relationship with TJ, 157;
    historians' reactions to, 158-60; racial classification of, 160; life in
    Paris, 163-64; possible identification with TJ's family, 164-65; and TJ
    in Paris, 166; nature of feelings for TJ,170,171; receives wages from TL
    172-73; boards at Madame Dupri's, 175; few references to in Jefferson
    family letters, 177-79; relationship with friends of TJ's daughters,
    177; mentioned in memoirs of Monticello, 178; TJ's expenditures on
    clothing for, 179; return trip to America, 180-81; linked to Maria
    Cosway, 184-85, 185-87, 190, 191, 192-93; attributes that were attractive
    to TJ, 186, 189-9o; pattern of conceptions, 195-96; probable given name
    of, 196, 239; children's names and, 196-97, 199-200; TJ's failure to
    free, 206-9, 222; life after Monticello and death of, 209 
Historians: ignore details of lives of slaves and former slaves, 4, 14,
	19, 20-22, 32, 182, 224, 226-28; use of blatantly racist source
	material, 13-14; double standards for assessing statements in Hemings
	controversy, 29, 34-38, 78-79, 84-98, 103, 223; strategy for dealing
	with Hemings allegation, 52, 59, 65, 66, 75-76, 77; character defense of
	TJ driven by personal values, 107, 119, 120-21, 127, 131, 147, 157; rely
	too heavily on Jefferson family documents, 126-27, 177 
Hochman, Stephen A., 8-77 



I

Isabel, 160 



J

Jackson, Andrew, 132 
Jefferson, Isaac, 50-51, 242 
Jefferson, Israel (Gillett), 10, 12, 103, 206, 214-15, 242 
Jefferson, Jane (TJ's mother), 95 
Jefferson, Lucy, 1, 162 
Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton, 120, 121, 126, 225, 241; daughter of
    John Wayles, 23; sister of Sally Hemings, 23, 73, 191; wife of TJ, 23,
    125, 190, 245-46; childbearing of, 118, 125; request that Jefferson not
    remarry, 118, 129; Sally Hemings and, 128-29, 191, 192-93; state of
    knowledge about miscegenation, 128-30; and Elizabeth Hemings, 130 
Jefferson, Peter (TJs father), 75, 197-98, 227 
Jefferson, Thomas, 241; goes to Paris, l; favors members of the Hemings
    family, 1, 26, 46-47, 164-65; rumors about affair with Hemings,1, 65;
    James Callender publishes stories about, l; surrogates respond to
    Callender, 1-2 2, 70-71; response to allegation, 1, 141- 47; frees Sally
    Hemings's children, 2, 38-41, 51-53, 66; Madison Hemings claims as
    father, 2, 7, 9; historians defend against charge of miscegenation, 2-3,
    4-5; Sally Hemings as chambermaid, l0, 214, 219; statue in Washington
    said to resemble Eston Hemings, 15; prefers mechanics and building over
    agriculture, 21 22; origins of relationship with Sally Hemings, 23;
    promise to free Hemings's children, 24-27, 213-14; notes departure of
    Beverley and Harriet Hemings, 25, 26; on departure of Jamey Hemings,
    25-26; helps Harriet Hemings leave Monticello, 27-28, 29, 29-34; on
    relative importance of female slaves, 29, 31; image used by Pierson,
    34-35, 37; strange construction of will, 41 43;treatment of Hemings
    children, 44, 147-48, 150, 152-56, 218-22; special treatment of Sally
    Hemings, 47-48; Isaac Jefferson's memories of, 49;grandson on
    resemblance between Hemings children and, 50, 70, 216-18; on racial
    classifications in Virginia, 53; possible concern for Hemings children's
    status as legally white, 53-58; James Callender and, 59-60, 76;
    politically motivated attacks upon, 63, 82; connections to the Woodson
    family, 69; attempted seduction of John Walker's wife, 72; Jefferson's
    records of births to Sally Hemings, 73, 76; and David Meade Randolph,
    74; favorite grandchildren of, 79, 94; at Monticello when Hemings
    conceived children, 80, 99-102, 195 96; chronology of his life, 81;
    other slave children said to resemble, 91; mock trial of, 105-6;
    public's fondness for and identification with, l06-7; historians cite
    character and personality as answers to love affair with Hemings, 107-8
    118-19, 155-57, 169-70; Jefferson as gentleman, l08-11; attitude toward
    teenaged girls, 112,161; feelings toward Hemings,115; attitude toward
    slavery, 116-17; as benign despot, 117-18; Cocke's statements that TJ
    had a slave mistress, 119, 215; said to lack sexual passion, 120-22; use
    of "Head and Heart" as guide to psyche, 122-27; conflict between role as
    lover of Hemings and as father and grandfather, 127-31; financial
    collapse and its effect upon family, 131- 33; racism of, 133-41;
    interest in balloon ascensions, 152; linked to Hemings,158; instructions
    regarding Polly Jefferson's trip to France, 161- 62; resides at the
    Httel deLangeac, 163; as possible object of Hemings's affection, 164-66;
    as a symbol of whiteness, 172; concern about status of James and Sally
    Hemings, 173 continues to pay James Hemings wages upon return to
    America, 174; disappearance of index of letters written in 1788,175;
    scarcity of references s to Hemings in family letters, 177,178-79;
    expenditure on clothing for Hemings, return to the United States,
    180-81; control of public image, 183-84; and Maria Cosway, 184-85; use
    of Cosway to rebut the Hemings story 87; attitude toward women, 188-89,
    190-91, 192; shared memories with Sally Hemings and Martha Jefferson
    Randolph, 191; record of sales to household, 194; relationship to people
    for whom the Hemings children were named, 196-99; pattern of naming,
    201; emancipation of Hemings's brothers, 201-4; 4; fails to formally
    emancipate Sally Hemings, 206-9, 222; Hemings children named for
    relatives and friends of, 211-212; defended at great cost, 224-28;
    public's desire to humanize, 228-31; varying "versions" of, 231-34 
Johnson, Samuel, 50 
Jones, John A., 12-14, 242 
Jordan, Winthrop, 3 
Jupiter, 183 



L

Lee, Henry, 141, 143 
Lewis, Meriwether, 60, 71, 217 
Lilly, Gabriel, 26, 135 
Lincoln, Abraham, l06 
Lincoln, Levi, 141- 42, 144-46 



M

McCarthy, Frank, 183 
McLaughlin, Jack, 122, 195 
Madison, Dolley, 112, 199 
Madison, James, 135 
Malone, Dumas, 3, 61, 152, 172, 205-6, 243; on publication of Madison
    Hemings's memoirs, 7-17; on TJ's freeing of Harriet Hemings, 31 32; on
    TJ's emancipation of slaves in his Will, 38-39; considers the substance
    of the Hemings story, 46-48; on standard for considering the Hemings
    memoirs, So; explains Randolph siblings' contradictory accounts, 89;
    sets the parameters for the character defense of TJ, 107-8, 156-57; on
    the Walker affair,141- 46; describes the return of the Jeffersons and
    Hemingses to America, 180; efforts to derail miniseries based on the
    novel Sally Hemings, 183; on Peter Jefferson's storytelling,198 
Mapp, Alf E., 112 
Marshall, John, 74, 144 
Maurice, James, 179-80 
Miller, John Chester, 4, 243; devotes chapter to debunking the Hemings
    story, 4; on Madison Hemings, 17-18, 19, 45; skeptical of Madison
    Hemings's Ianguage, 20-21; on TJs attitude toward the Hemings children,
    30-31, 152-55; treatment of TJ's purported denial of Hemings allegation,
    143-45; on TJ's failure to formally free Sally Hemings, 207; on the
    Hemings children's resemblance to TL 217 
Miscegenation: frequency in antebellum South, 60-61, 113, 130-31, 136-37,
    164-66; historians' seeming discomfort with, 166-69 
Mitchell, Margaret, 19 
Monroe, James, 60, 132 



N

Neilson, Joseph (father of John Hemings), 49-50 
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 30, 198 



O

Ogletree, Charles, 105 



P

Paley, William, 183 
Parton, James, 3, 243; writes to Henry Randall about Madison Hemings,
    79, 81; responds to Madison Hemings's memoirs, 83, 96-97 
Perrault, Monsieur, French tutor, 163 
Peterson, Merrill, 3; emphasizes role of abolitionists in promoting the
    Hemings story, 37 ; notes gossip about TJ and Sally Hemings, 63; cites
    Federalists' role in spreading the Hemings story, 63; on Henry Randall,
    81 82, 83-84; describes blacks' motivations for believing the Hemings
    story, 82-83; on TJ's character, 82 
Pierson, Hamilton W.: use of Bacon memoirs to promote antisecessionist
    cause, 34-35; possible motive to dispute Hemings allegation, 35, 37-38,
    243 
"President Tom," 1, 24, 25, 61-62, 67, 70, 77, 204 



R

Ramsey, Capt. Andrew, 161, 162 
Randall, Henry Stephens, 2, 8o-82, 243 
Randall, Willard Sterne: on Madison Hemings, 4851; responds to Fawn
    Brodie, 111-12, 244 
Randolph, Beverley (governor of Virginia), 198 
Randolph, David Meade: refuses to remit Callender's fine, 60; as source
    for Hemings story, 74-75 
Randolph, George Wythe, 80, 241, 247 
Randolph, Harriet, 199 
Randolph, James Madison, 156, 247 
Randolph, Jane, 199-200 
Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 44, 148, 176, 178-79, 192, 241; daughter of
    TJ, 1; attempts to disprove TJs paternity of a Hemings child, 80-81, 84,
    85, 86, 98; tells sons to defend TJ, 80, 93; gave out supplies to
    slaves, 85; status confers believability, 86; family's involvement with
    miscegenation, 130-31; difficulties in marriage, 131; financial extremis
    after TJ's death, 132; relation ship with TJ, 153, 154-55, 156; at French
    convent school, 163; possible desire to become a nun, 179; TJ on
    education of, 188-89; shared experience: with Sally Hemings and TJ, 191;
    and freedom of Sally Hemings, 206, 207, 209 
Randolph, Mary, 75 
Randolph, Thomas Beverley, 198 
Randolph, Thomas Eston, 199-200, 241 
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson: denies TJ's paternity of the Hemings
    children, 28; comments upon Hemings children's resemblance to TJ, 50,
    91, 217-18; closeness to TJ, 54-55, 79; as source for Carr brothers
    story, 79, 83, 85, 86, 87; contradictory statements about the Hemings
    story, 87-89, 94; conversation with sister about the Hemings story, 88;
    drafts letter to respond to Israel Jefferson, 88; anecdote about TJ,
    139; complains about quality of his education, 155; relationship with
    Madison and Eston Hemings, 204 
Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr., 42, 131, 155 
Randolph, William, 197 
Randolph, William (TJ's uncle), 199 
Randolph, William Beverley, 198 
Rehnquist, William, 105 



S

Sally Hemings (the novel), 4, 14, 181-84 
The Scotts (family of black musicians), 138 
Selznick, David O., 19 
Shackelford, Tom, 68 
Sloan, Herbert, 132 
Smith, Robert: and TJ's letter on the Walker affair, 141-44 
Stereotypes, role of in assessment of Hemings controversy, 10-22,
	94-95, 108, 165-66, 171, 182, 188 
Stäl, Mme de, 189 



T

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 69, 230 
Trist, Nicholas, 132 
Tristan and Iseult, 170 
Tubman, Harriet, 159 
Turner, Thomas: on Sally Hemings's oldest child, 72; on connection
    between Martha Wayles and Sally Hemings 73, 129; and the Walker affair,
    142 



U

Unnamed daughter of Sally Hemings: recent discovery of, 73; young girls
    help Hemings with, 153; TJ on birth of, 153; conception of, 195 



V

Vidal, Gore, 182 Walker, Elizabeth Moore (Mrs. John): and TJ, 141-46,
    190-91 



W

Walker, John: TJ's attempted seduction of his wife, 72, 76;
    confrontation with TJ, 141-46 
Walpole, Horace, 187 
Washington, George, 106 
Wayles, John: father of Sally Hemings, 1, 23, 49, 50, 73,; father of
    Martha Jefferson, 23, 73, 164, 242; failed joint venture with father of
    David Meade Randolph, 74; relationship with Elizabeth Hemings, 128-30,
    164, 239, 242 
Weaver, William (census taker): makes note about Madison Hemings's
    parentage, 9, 212, 242 
Wetmore, S. E: editor of Pike County (Ohio) Republican, 8, 243;
    sympathy for former slaves, 8,13,16; and Madison Hemings's interview, 8,
    12, 13-14, 15, 24, 43-44, 45-46, 59; historians' characterizations of and
    responses to, 8-10, 17, 21, 34, 45, 84, 211-12; work on behalf of
    Republican party, 9; takes 1870 census in Pike County, 9-10; interviews
    Israel Jefferson, l0; attacks TJ for treatment of Madison Hemings, 13;
    describes Madison Hemings, 13, 16 
Wills, Garry: skepticism toward a TJ and Hemings love affair, 169-72; on
    Hemings's lack of education, 188 
Wilson, Douglas: on "presentism" in modern-day depictions of TJ and
    Hemings, 114-15; on implications of a TJ and Hemings relationship,
    116, 121 Woodson, Dorothea (Dorothy), 69 
Woodson, John (father), 69 
Woodson, John (son), 69 
Woodson, Josiah, 69
Woodson, Tarleton, 69 
Woodson, Thomas (Tom Hemings), 1; 
    Woodson oral history regarding, 69, 240 
			

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