Riches were available to anyone who changed his attitude, wrote Hill.

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"He changed his attitude quickly, " she says.

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It was perhaps the revelation (or confirmation) of Jefferson's amours with his slave Sally Hemings, and more broadly the changed attitude of Americans to race, that freed them from the waxworks in which they had been imprisoned.

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