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Ignoring or denying the unexplained doesn’t make it go away

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Hemingses of Monticello greenwalt Ignoring or denying the unexplainedThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon Reed Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid 1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was