At 05:24 AM 10/16/2001 +0100, D. Spencer Hines wrote:
I stand by what I wrote, 100%.

Sloan has deleted most of what Hines said and tries to misrepresent and
distort it.

Sloan is a Hard-Left Activist with an axe to grind. He was one of those
Berkeley crazies of the 1960's. Now he is shamelessly trying to hawk
his self-published book on SGM.

More nonsense from D. Spencer Hines. I was warned weeks ago that it is
best to ignore him, as he makes statements for shock effect and
probably does not even believe them himself.

Yes, it is true that I was a student at the University of California
at Berkeley in the mid-1960s and I was deeply involved in the Free
Speech Movement there. However, I have never been a Hard-Left
Activist. If anything, I am a bit to the right. More importantly, that
has nothing to do with my interest or involvement in the
Jefferson-Hemings controversy.

I was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1944 and grew up in Lynchburg.
When I was a little boy, my mother, Dr. Marjorie Sloan, told me that
Thomas Jefferson fathered children by his slaves. There were black
people in Lynchburg who had the Jefferson name and who said that they
were descended from Thomas Jefferson. Lynchburg is the location of
Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's second home. He kept a majority of
his slaves there, because the farmland was better there than at
Monticello.

Everybody in Lynchburg is aware that Thomas Jefferson fathered
children by his slaves. I have never met anyone there who doubts this.

In 1990, I was stranded in Lynchburg by a child custody case, so,
trying to think of something to do with my spare time, I decided to
write a book or a short pamphlet about it. I went to the Jones
Memorial Library in Lynchburg, which is a library devoted solely to
history and genealogy. There, I found accounts of family members who
claimed to be members of the family of Thomas Jefferson. I found
Church Parrish Records and Court Order Books containing records which
appeared not to have been looked at in more than one hundred years.

I read thousands of letters written by Thomas Jefferson in his own
handwriting. These were original documents, not something I bought at
the Barnes & Noble bookstore. I summarized these findings in my book,
"The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson" which was published in Japan
in April 1992.

Sam Sloan