I understand; that doesn’t explain hopping in the sack with her half-sister. If my wife passes away, I think I’d be looking outside the pool of in-laws for a mate.
It certainly is a possibility that Jefferson did have relations with her; it is still such a stretch that stating it as fact is revisionist history. As pointed out earlier, it was to justify BJ Clinton’s BJs.
I was just making the point that there relationship (if they had one, and not that I really care either way) was not likely adulterous as some perhaps imply. Most who buy into it believe it began a number of years later while Jefferson was in Paris (Hemmings was his daughter's nanny).
In addition, her children were 7/8 european and lived as free white folks. Although she was freed by Jefferson's daughter, after her service to Jefferson's daughter ended, she moved in with her own sons.