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- Bear, James A., Jr., ed. Jefferson at Monticello. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1967.
- Contains Isaac Jefferson's Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Hamilton W. Pierson's The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson that contains Edmund Bacon's recollections. See entries in primary resources for both Isaac Jefferson and Edmund Bacon.
- Brodie, Fawn M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974.
- Brodie's revisionist history is the first to accept the reality of a Jefferson-Hemings relationship and will be central to episode 7. It is enough to note here that Brodie calls Madison Hemings's memoir "the most important single document" in the controversy.
- Campbell Charles. "Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith." William and Mary Quarterly 8.4 (1951): 566-82. (See secondary resources entries for Bear and Logan and primary resources entry for Isaac Jefferson.)
- See primary resources entry for Isaac Jefferson, who was a Jefferson slave. Campbell's edition of Isaac's memoir is printed here for perhaps the first time and may be the most easily available now. Rayford Logan edited and wrote an introduction to this printing (pp. 561-65). The description of Sally that for us is the key point of information in this memoir is on pp. 567-68.
- Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997.
- Like Fawn Brodie, Gordon-Reed accepts the story contained in Madison Hemings’s memoir, and it is enough to note here that her analysis of the memoir and her rigorous examination of the testimony of Ellen Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and Edmund Bacon will be taken up in episode 12.
- Lewis, Jan Ellen. “The White Jeffersons.†Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Ed. Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999.
- Logan, Rayford W. "Memoirs of a Monticello Slave." William and Mary Quarterly 8.3 (1951): 561-65. (See secondary resources entries for Bear and Campbell and primary resources entry for Isaac Jefferson.)
- Logan characterizes Isaac Jefferson's memoir thus: "The reminiscences are confined to what Isaac saw and heard. They recount the simple events which even an illiterate slave, possessed of normal sight and hearing at the time of the events, could intelligently observe. Isaac Jefferson was obviously not mistreated by his masters. He did not, however, indulge in nostalgia about the ‘good old days.' The very simplicity of his story is its best watermark of authenticity." Perhaps the most interesting thing about Logan's introduction here is that there are two Campbell manuscripts, and only one -- though clearly the one intended for publication -- has the all-important section on Sally.
- Malone, Dumas, and Steven H. Hochman. "A Note on Evidence: The Personal History of Madison Hemings." Journal of Southern History 41.4 (1975): 523-28.
- In this second response to Fawn Brodie (see Malone, "Mr. Jefferson's Private Life"), Malone and Hochman publish here the introduction by editor S. F. Wetmore to the series in which Madison Hemings's memoir appeared and the response to the memoir in a rival newspaper by journalist John A. Jones. The timing of this publication as well as the nature of the introductions to these pieces are not as directly relevant here as they will be in the later episode 7 on Brodie.
- Malone, Dumas. "Mr. Jefferson's Private Life." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 84.1 (1974): 65-72. New York Times 18 May 1974: 31.
- Subsequent to the publication of Fawn Brodie's 1974 book accepting Madison Hemings's account of a relationship between Jefferson and his mother, Malone publishes here the key 1858 letter of Jefferson granddaughter Ellen Randolph Coolidge as a rebuttal, while providing his own introduction to it. The timing of this publication as well as the nature of the introduction to this piece are not as directly relevant here as they will be in the later episode 7 on Brodie.
- Wiencek, Henry. Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012.
