![]() At times I had no idea who I was reading about. Too many names to keep track of, too much detail that wasn't necessary for the telling of this story. While this book is a fantastic genealogical gold mine for the Woodson family it left me a bit bored in some places. I am not going to say yay or nay on the question of Thomas Woodson's paternity, I just need more evidence. Maybe the family needs to have the DNA tests done again, it is possible there was a big cover up conspiracy and the tests were botched. His story is believable but the DNA evidence is the deal breaker. While I feel sad for this family and Byron Woodson, the author who so desperately wants the pieces to all come together in this mystery, they just don't fit. I am not going to say yay or nay on the question of Thomas Woodson's paternity, I just need I had a hard time with some things in this book. I had a hard time with some things in this book. This is the amazing story of the Woodson family and its steadfast effort to reveal its illustrious past to the American public.more Woodson, Sr., a sixth-generation descendant of Jefferson, details the recent developments in the quest to corroborate family lore, to locate missing family members, and to reveal the truth about the complex day-to-day life at Monticello. His children and grandchildren would prosper as entrepreneurs, engineers, and educators.Ī President in the Family tells of the Woodsons' continuing struggle to correct accounts by Jeffersonian historians and their successful discovery of documentation that supports an oral history that survived independently in five branches of the family tree. A founder of Wilberforce University and described by some as the father of black nationalism, Lewis argued that the black race should not depend on white philanthropy to achieve success in America. Their eldest son Lewis, author of the famous Augustine letters, would carry on the family tradition of education, leadership, and public service. A President in the Family traces Thomas Woodson's subsequent journey from Virginia to Ohio where Thomas and wife Jemima, a former slave, would raise a productive and ambitious family. He was banished from Monticello at the age of 12, after a journalist exposed Jefferson's relationship with his young slave. A President in the Family traces Thomas Woodson's subsequent journey from Virginia to Ohio where Thomas and wife Jemima, a former slave, Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. The author follows the Hemingses in their trek west revealing little-known facts about an extraordinary family in their fulfillment of the “American dream.” Along with the most thorough examination of the Sally Hemings controversy to date, new discoveries and details are revealed as never before available to the general public.Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. Numerous sources are examined in an attempt to resolve ambiguities and to determine relevance and credibility. ![]() New findings that focus on the infamous, yet inconclusive DNA Jefferson’s health and his activities accounts of witnesses origin of the myth and the possibility that Sally’s children were fathered by other men carrying the Jefferson Y chromosome are discussed. For the first time ever, the reader is introduced to the president’s younger brother, Randolph Jefferson, and his sons. Jefferson Vindicated: Fallacies, Omissions, and contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Searchįresh from Jefferson country, a local researcher sheds new light on the old legend.
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