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The Jefferson-Hemings scandal quiets down once Callender dies in 1803 and once Jefferson wins election to a second term in 1804. But it doesn't die. Far from it. British critics used the controversy as part of their attack on American culture in our early national period.
Selected primary readings:
Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832): Chap. 7
Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832): Chap. 29
Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America (1833): Chap. X, "New York"
Frederick Marryat, A Diary in America (1839): "Slavery"
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, "Jefferson's Daughter" (1848)
Selected secondary readings:
Clark, Jennifer. "Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War." Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 6 (2002): 45-68.
Haynes, Sam W. "What Do You Think of Our Country?" Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2010. 24-50.
Mason, Matthew. "The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly 59.3 (2002): 665-96.
