| Sumario: | This essay explores the scholarship of historian Annette Gordon-Reed regarding former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's affair with his slave, Sally Hemings. Discussed in this essay is book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," by Annette Gordon-Reed and shows opposition faced by Gordon-Reed, who exposed a history of scholarly cover-up of the affair. Historians were either overtly racist, thought of any affair as a moral tragedy, or saw Jefferson as a non-sexual being incapable of having an affair. DNA evidence has since shown strong evidence in favor of the existence of the affair.
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