To call this a loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy. In all the venues I have visited, from Houston to Stockholm, one question always arises: Did they love each other? Or, at least, the process of writing forces us into solitude for long stretches of time I find it refreshing and gratifying to meet people who have read one’s work (or plan to) and have questions, observations, and opinions about it. Writers are, in the main, solitary creatures.
In the years since the publication of my book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, I have traveled throughout the United States and overseas talking about them-and life and slavery at Monticello.
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