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Slave quarters of Sally Hemings, the maid who gave birth to six of Thomas Jefferson’s children found
The Daily Mail ^ | 7/3/17 | CECILE BORKHATARIA

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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To: GJones2

1833 October 27. (Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge). “Jefferson and Lewis went up to gether when the papers were moved, and every drawer, press, closet, and cranny of the room were thoroughly searched and emptied, even the little closet above the alcove.”13


321 posted on 07/05/2017 11:38:42 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: JayVee

“As I understand it, DNA testing only pointed to a “male in the Jefferson line,” not necessarily Thomas.”

Didn’t she travel with him to France?


322 posted on 07/05/2017 11:39:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I’d say that percentage holds true among black people in the United States today, but attributing it all to owners taking advantage of women bound to them is an error and an historical slur.

And, whether or not you’re a fan of Oprah, you trade in the same emotion-based codswallop and love wallowing in immorality under the guise of truth and “being real,” or at least that’s my perception at the moment. So, you’re an unwitting victim of trashy pop culture whether you’re willing to admit that or not.


323 posted on 07/05/2017 11:39:37 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I don’t tend to post entire articles, but I’m all for research.


324 posted on 07/05/2017 11:41:45 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: RegulatorCountry

You think it trashes his reputation. His reputation AT THE TIME was that of a randy individual.

These people were just men, no more, no less. To deny that is just crazy.

He had feet of clay. We all do. That doesn’t take away from what he accomplished.


325 posted on 07/05/2017 11:45:09 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Errors and omissions repeatedly made in one direction only are not in fact errors and omissions. I’ve learned that the hard way in life and in business.

You’ve repeatedly made errors and omissions in one direction only, here.

Explain yourself.


326 posted on 07/05/2017 11:46:05 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GJones2
I googled “loft”,

"Thomas Jefferson wrote to his daughter Martha in 1815, "In the closet over my bed you will find a bag tied up, and labelled 'Wolf-skin pelisse,' and another labelled 'fur-boots,' wherein those articles will be found."

The "closet" refers to a small storage space above the bed, ventilated by three oval-shaped, porthole-like openings. The storage space is reached through the doorway to the right of the head of the bed, which conceals a ladder-like set of stairs."

327 posted on 07/05/2017 11:46:36 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’ve posted from original sources. If the children and grandchildren contradicted themselves, so be it.


328 posted on 07/05/2017 11:47:48 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

You’ve posted incomplete cites and please point out any contradictions among family when cited in full, which you’ve thus far not done without shall we say encouragement.


329 posted on 07/05/2017 11:49:42 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GJones2
Jefferson’s grandson also gives some information about where Sally lived — “Walking about mouldering Monticello one day with Col. T. J. Randolph (Mr. Jefferson’s oldest grandson) he showed me a smoke blackened and sooty room in one of the collonades [outside the main building], and informed me it was Sally Henings’ room.”

It's interesting that he'd go out of his way to point out where one slave of many supposedly lived.

330 posted on 07/05/2017 11:50:15 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: RegulatorCountry

You’ll have to source your complaint.


331 posted on 07/05/2017 11:51:40 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

My source is this thread and your replies contained therein.


332 posted on 07/05/2017 11:52:26 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
...so can one honestly claim that they were actually free in a legal sense

The people in question were free people of color.

333 posted on 07/05/2017 11:55:10 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: RegulatorCountry

If you can refute what has been posted, by all means do so.

That’s how this works.


334 posted on 07/05/2017 11:55:54 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

If you can post complete cites going forward containing not just scurrilous attempts to imply something that known facts do not support while neglecting to cite family members refuting it, please do. I’d appreciate that.


335 posted on 07/05/2017 12:10:23 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

The onus is upon you to state what you think is incorrect.


336 posted on 07/05/2017 12:12:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

It is incorrect to cite only proponents of your favored theory while neglecting or misrepresenting opposition. That’s called bias.


337 posted on 07/05/2017 12:15:58 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

It’s not my “theory.” It’s history and science.

If you think something I’ve posted is incorrect, it’s your job to substantiate your thoughts on the matter.


338 posted on 07/05/2017 1:20:22 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

> It’s interesting that he’d go out of his way to point out where one slave of many supposedly lived.

There’s no indication that he [the grandson Randolph] went “out of his way” to lead Randall to that spot. Rather they were walking through Monticello (”Walking about mouldering Monticello one day”) when he pointed it out.

Obviously the topic was of special interest, though — accusations against Jefferson having been publicized widely during early political campaigns — and Randolph used the occasion to tell Randall a few things about it.

You’ve posted quotations about closets associated with storage near Jefferson’s bed, but I’ve seen nothing about Sally having lived there (and would be stunned to see proof that she did). Randolph, on the other hand, provides testimony — from a person who at the time when Sally’s children were born there “had charge of Monticello” — that Sally’s room was “in one of the collonades [modern spelling “colonnades”]”. He also provides significant testimony about the conduct of Thomas and other persons while he was living there.


339 posted on 07/05/2017 3:20:55 PM PDT by GJones2 (Claim that Hemings lived in a loft above Jefferson's bedroom)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Earlier you’d implied that that this grandson’s inference from the resemblance “at dusk” was that Thomas Jefferson was the father.

> Did he say he believed Thomas was the father? [GJones2]
> When he wrote that the child looked so much like Jefferson that one would think it WAS Jefferson, what is the inference? [Bodleian_Girl]

In this letter in which the “at dusk” remark is recorded, though, he emphatically denies such an inference (”...there was not the shadow of suspicion that Mr. Jefferson in this or any other instance ever had commerce with his female slaves...and...no person ever living at Monticello dreamed of such a thing”).


340 posted on 07/05/2017 3:24:16 PM PDT by GJones2 (Physical resemblance of Hemings child to Jefferson "at dusk")
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