Posted on 07/03/2017 6:20:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
Archaeologists have discovered an area in Thomas Jefferson's plantation home that was once the living quarters of Sally Hemings - a slave with whom he is believed to have had six children. Her room, which was built in 1809 and was 14 feet, 8 inches wide and 13 feet long, was next to Thomas Jefferson's room. However, the bedroom went unnoticed for decades and the area was even made into a men's bathroom in 1941.
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Have you read the letters? I have.
I dare say you’d want your wife receiving such.
Thanks!
Oh, yes it can! She helped him write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. That's all the proof anyone needs! /s
;)
Stranger things have been known to happen.
Supposition is not evidence.
But keep trying.
Wow! That's cold.
Thomas Jefferson kept very detailed records of all events of interest at Monticello. Those records include who visited, how long they stayed, nature of their visit,when they left, etc. One of the more interesting records at Monticello was the records of slave births. Each entry is the date, name of the mother, name of the father, sex of the child and its name. These records exist for every child born to a slave at Monticello, with one exception. The birth records for Sally Heming’s 6 children do not list the name of the father. All the other records do
Sally Hemmings had the children of Jefferson’s brother. He did not have an affair with her
Either a nephew or his brother. They did mitochondrial DNA tests
So, someone missed a room “14 feet, 8 inches wide and 13 feet long” and no one could find it or determine it was there??????
Who writes this stuff?
In NYC they’d divide a 14 foot by 13 foot room and sell it as a 2 BR condo for $1M.
They can’t get it up at 77 unless they have a pill.
His brother was no where near Monticello during her conception times, only Jefferson was.
His nephews were ruled out by DNA.
dragging a few letters out of a 60-0dd year relationship into the conversation under the rubric of their being "flirtatious" in order to somehow defend TJ from the (probably) true charge that he was impregnating his slaves is intentionally misleading.
I would say it is fundamentally dishonest, but I don't know the guy that said it, and that's a pretty heavy charge.
Interesting debate.
I have no dog in this hunt but find still find it fascinating. The evidence is persuasive (of TJ’s involvement) as an armchair spectator, but recognize that it would be more problematic in a court of law.
So I don’t doubt the possibility but remain neutral. What is fascinating however is the attitudes of those who are so stridently opposed to the possibility. Why do you think they so greatly fear the chance that TJ boinked the servant?
“It seems strange that his brother would be sneaking in from another county to have sex with his brother’s handmaid.”
Perfect cover. Monticello is relatively isolated. More so back then.
I read the letters and found them flirtatious, on both their parts. He more than she.
His wife died when he was young. Sally was his wife’s half-sister. Do you really think the man went without sex for the rest of his life?
He had to avail himself of a ferry to get there. One wonders how he worked that scheme in the dead of night.
And then snuck into his brother’s bedroom, which he had to go through to get to Sally.
Not if she be doin’ it wif da white man.
It’s hot, I’m good w/ being a FReezer! ; )
According to Jeffersonian scholar Prof. Robert Turner (Un of Va Law School, and others), DNA tests on the Hemings show that the most likely father of Sally’s child was Thomas’s brother Robert. Apparently Sally Heming’s mentioned Robert in a more personal way that Thomas Jefferson.
Try to Google “Robert Turner, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings” and see if you come up with the article Bob wrote that summarized DNA and other findings in the past few years.
I’ll see if I can find the direct link and post it for all of you.
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