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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Perhaps Habiba, “the beloved,” or Mouna, “the desired.”
Does this line of thinking make Hussein “White”?
Forty then is considerably different from forty now.
Interesting — the article says the description of Sally’s purported room comes from one of the nephews.
You would think that “Freezers” would more likely be associated with snowflakes.
I don't have a problem with Thomas Jefferson being the father of the white children of Sally Hemmings. She was only 1/4 black herself.
He also carried on a long flirtatious correspondence with Abigail Adams.
It's not like he was a Christian, or a man known for a religious belief which would preclude him from doing this.
I agree. She should be glad!
Oh, please. If they weren’t dead, at any age, they were getting busy. Men in their 60s or older married teenaged girls, especially if they didn’t have a surviving son. General Longstreet, for example. Aaron Burr married, at 77, Eliza Jumel, a rich widow who was probably a former prostitute.
“Actually studies have proven that his nephew was no where around when the children were fathered, but letters and other documents show that Thomas Jefferson was always at Monticello during the conception of Sally Hemmings white children.”
Another point of view:
https://jeffersondnastudy.com/people/thomas-brother-randolph/
https://jeffersondnastudy.com/people/randolphs-sons/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/true/primer.html
https://wallbuilders.com/thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-search-truth/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1977wolf.html
The science is inconclusive. The evidence is not sufficient to prove paternity in a court of law.
No, Obama is black.
But Sally Hemmings was what they call, “light, bright and almost white.”
It was not conclusively proven that Thomas was the father of any or all of Hemings’ children.
Only that a Jefferson male was the father.
Thomas’s brother Randolph was 12 years younger than Thomas, and could just as likely been the father, as Thomas would have been 52-65 to be the father of Hemings’ children.
Randolph would have been 40-53 years old.
There were political considerations that went into the smear of Thomas in the 1802 political campaign, as well as the 1998 revival to help CLinton out of a jam.
True but that doesn't play as well for libs looking for any excuse to whine and have heart palpitations over. A nephew isn't anything compared to a POTUS.
is believed that Jefferson kept his six children as slaves until they came of age, at which point he freed them one by one.
What was he supposed to do? Turn little kids out all on their own? Libs don't have working brain cells.
We know that his brother wasn’t there during her times of conception, but Jefferson was.
The Carr nephews were ruled out due to DNA.
The Carr nephews were ruled out due to DNA.
Somewhere in there there is a serious lack of nuance....
Of interest: When I was looking at the photos of the room the fireplace jumped out at me as a Runford so I did a little digging. The Rumford fireplace, high tech for the day. He must have cared greatly to have that built. I found this: “Rumford wrote two papers[1][2] detailing his improvements on fireplaces in 1796 and 1798. He was well known and widely read in his lifetime and almost immediately in the 1790s his “Rumford fireplace” became state-of-the-art worldwide. Subsequent testing of Rumford’s designs has shown that their efficiency would qualify them as clean-burning stoves.[3]” and this, “Rumford fireplaces were common from 1796, when Count Rumford first wrote about them, until about 1850. Jefferson had them built at Monticello, and Thoreau listed them among the modern conveniences that everyone took for granted.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford_fireplace
Was it next to the Wine Cellar at Mar-a-Lago?
Thanks for this post!
I’ve never heard of this gentleman before.
“The Monticello Jefferson-Hemings Report (2000) noted that Randolph made only four recorded visits to Monticello (in September 1802, September 1805, May 1808, and sometime in 1814); none is related to Sally Hemings’s conceptions.”
That’s some great input! Thank you for that interesting tidbit!
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