Showing posts with label Hemings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hemings. Show all posts

March 3, 2008

Who's Your Daddy? Jefferson On Trial

William Hyland has published "A Civil Action: Sally Hemings v. Thomas Jefferson," in volume 31 of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy (2007). Here is the abstract.
Allegations that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings have been discussed for two centuries. In this Article, the authors summarize a "mock" trial defense of Jefferson, concluding that the allegations are unproved by the greater weight of the evidence.

Download the article from SSRN here.