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Box 20

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Contains 16 Results:

Scrapbook

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983

Copies of Correspondence

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 31-32
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983

Notes and Quotations from Correspondence

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983

Johnson, Paula, and Virginia Leake

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983

Photographs

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983

Woodson Family

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents From the Series: Next to No Man Knows My History, this was Brodie's most controversial book. Her attempt to relate Jefferson's "inner life" and to detail his affair with a Black enslaved woman greatly offended the conservative scholars of the "Jefferson establishment," who considered her book defamatory and slanderous to the nation's founding fathers. These nine boxes contain almost the complete project, from manuscript to book reviews.
Dates: 1932-1983