Seeing Past The Slave


	Seeing Past The Slave

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0fec6710-7855-4e5b-9c90-e6c5ad9e9f60/57C5D335-FC46-4557-8AAF-4EC8C213246C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse"><P>When, 11 years ago, DNA evidence convinced most experts that <A title="More articles about Thomas Jefferson." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/thomas_jefferson/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Thomas Jefferson</A> had fathered children with his slave <A title="More articles about Sally Hemings." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/sally_hemings/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Sally Hemings</A>, many people talked about what the discovery said about Jefferson. Yet few seemed all that interested in what it said about the young girl he owned.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/DFA4BD82-8A5C-48C3-B069-E0AA6C303F84" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse">“I wanted to tell the story of this family in a way not done before” so that readers can “see slave people as individuals,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse"><P>“Robert, James, Elizabeth and Sally are not concepts but people,” she added, referring to the Hemings family.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse">She refuses to accept generalizations and easy conclusions; for instance, she  rejects the assertion that all sex between master and slave must be viewed as rape, saying it strips black women of the singularity of their life stories and their dignity.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse"><P>As Ms. Gordon-Reed spoke about how profoundly strange life in Monticello must have been, a large monitor played a short history of slavery in New York City.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html?scp=1&sq=seeing%20past%20the%20slave&st=cse">It is almost impossible to put ourselves in their places, Ms. Gordon-Reed said.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/57C5D335-FC46-4557-8AAF-4EC8C213246C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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