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Mongrel Nation The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Clarence E. Walker University of Virginia Press Charlottesville & London Walker000fm.indd iii Walker000fm.indd iii 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM University of Virginia Press© 2009 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2009 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walker, Clarence Earl. Mongrel nation : the America begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / Clarence E. Walker. p. cm. — (Jeffersonian America) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8139-2777-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Miscegenation—United States—History. 2. United States—Race relations. 3. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826—Relations with women. 4. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826—Relations with slaves. 5. Hemings, Sally. 6. Whites—Race identity—United States. 7. African Americans —Race identity. 8. Racially mixed people— United States. I. Title. E185.62.W35 2009 306.84'60973—dc22 2008024042 Walker000fm.indd iv Walker000fm.indd iv 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM [54.242.75.224] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:19 GMT) For Winthrop D. Jordan and Leon Litwack Walker000fm.indd v Walker000fm.indd v 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM Walker000fm.indd vi Walker000fm.indd vi 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM [54.242.75.224] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:19 GMT) We were integrated in the womb. —James Baldwin Slavery . . . was not the whips and chains of the school history books, not the breaking apart of families or the unending driving labor but some stain far greater and deeper, something that had been unleashed and then bloomed up, between and within at once both races, white and black, forever without surcease, tenacious, untouchable and unchangeable. —Jeffrey Lent . . . swingin’ white dick hot for black poon. —Philip Roth Look at the so-called whites, who’ve left bastards all over the known earth. It’s easy for a Negroe to “pass” for white. . . . I don’t think it would be so simple for a white person to “pass” for coloured. —Nella Larsen Walker000fm.indd vii Walker000fm.indd vii 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM Walker000fm.indd viii Walker000fm.indd viii 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM 10/24/08 11:38:04 AM ...