And the descendants look just like him!
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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I guess we're all just deeply in thrall to your Marxist construct "Slave Power" and therefore racist.
Don't you have some history to blow up or some statues to tear down, somewhere? There are a few still standing. Get busy, boy.
She was the half sister of his deceased wife (Jefferson’s father in law fathered Sally off one of his slaves) and probably resembled her. Whether Thomas Jefferson was the father of her children is open to question. But she was far more than a “maid”. In many respects slaves were more akin to family than hired help would have been and the whole “peculiar institution” was far more complex than most people can imagine.
She was the half sister of his deceased wife (Jefferson’s father in law fathered Sally off one of his slaves) and probably resembled her. Whether Thomas Jefferson was the father of her children is open to question. But she was far more than a “maid”. In many respects slaves were more akin to family than hired help would have been and the whole “peculiar institution” was far more complex than most people can imagine.
Or you’re just a mo-ron.
Well, as long as they pay reparations to themselves....
Again you assume.
Who says the coupling took place in Heming’s room?
Monticello has many rooms.
Maybe Thomas knew of the affair.
My point is that all of this came to light to help out Clinton, with the secondary objective to smear a Founding Father(the Clinton years were a precursor to the Obama years). The media echo chamber resounded with this until it became “fact” when it was all supposition.
All very convenient.
These events took place over 200 years ago—no one really knows exactly what happened.
Why should anyone from back then be smeared due to subjective viewpoints to obtain a modern political goal?
google that guy’s writings, and you wonder if TJ isn’t HIS (illegitimate) great, great, great grandfather.
Oh no, not complex, it's just not possible, our betters tell us so repeatedly. It was stark black and white, abolitionist angels vs demonic slavers, south bad north good. You're badly mistaken. You must be deeply in thrall to the Slave Power. /s
I stand in awe of your wit and wisdom.
He is one of my favorites, just the writing of the Declaration of Independence makes him one of the greats, the Declaration has inspired people all over the world. Follow that with his purchase of the Louisiana territory and stopping the Barbary pirates just increases his stature.
Was he perfect? No, but then none of the founding fathers were. They all made mistakes and disagreed with each other on things. I do believe from everything I have read on the subject that he did father children with Sally Hemings.
I think you are being a little hard on T.J.
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It was actually his brother that managed the place for him while he was in Washington and Europe.
At the time they were pushing this story, some honest historians opined that it was Jefferson’s unmarried nephew who fathered the children. I don’t know what this might say about Thomas Jefferson himself, to allow this to go on, but at least that was one view of the situation. I also do not know the chronology relative to his wife’s death, Jefferson’s hitch as Ambassador to France, and all his other duties all over the place.
At the time they were pushing this story, some honest historians opined that it was Jefferson’s unmarried nephew who fathered the children. I don’t know what this might say about Thomas Jefferson himself, to allow this to go on, but at least that was one view of the situation. I also do not know the chronology relative to his wife’s death, Jefferson’s hitch as Ambassador to France, and all his other duties all over the place.
And the descendants look just like him!
That can’t be true because he didn’t have a brother named Robert.
I agree with you.
Being Southern, I think it’s a fascinating part of our history that was buried for far too long.
That was weak.
We have already established the paternity is from a Jefferson male.
What has not been established is whether it was TJ, Randolph, or someone else.
I thought that was rather...cold.
Sally was with Jefferson in Paris.
She never conceived when Jefferson was not at Monticello.
I don’t see it as a smear and I don’t think it achieves any political goal.
Most of her children moved into white society and have been very successful.
The ones that stayed within the black community were very accomplished also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Madison_Roberts
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