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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: Paladin2

Perhaps Habiba, “the beloved,” or Mouna, “the desired.”


41 posted on 07/03/2017 6:50:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Does this line of thinking make Hussein “White”?


42 posted on 07/03/2017 6:50:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Tax-chick

Forty then is considerably different from forty now.


43 posted on 07/03/2017 6:50:51 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Interesting — the article says the description of Sally’s purported room comes from one of the nephews.


44 posted on 07/03/2017 6:51:21 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: wastoute

You would think that “Freezers” would more likely be associated with snowflakes.


45 posted on 07/03/2017 6:51:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Bodleian_Girl; RegulatorCountry; 2ndDivisionVet; CGASMIA68; wastoute; smokingfrog; CondorFlight; ...
Grandchild of Sally Hemmings and probably Thomas Jefferson, Lt. Col. John Wayles Jefferson (1835-1892) in 1864, a Union officer.

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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.

46 posted on 07/03/2017 6:52:11 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: bgill

I agree. She should be glad!


47 posted on 07/03/2017 6:54:09 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: RegulatorCountry

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.


48 posted on 07/03/2017 6:54:46 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

“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.


49 posted on 07/03/2017 6:55:44 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Paladin2

No, Obama is black.

But Sally Hemmings was what they call, “light, bright and almost white.”


50 posted on 07/03/2017 6:56:04 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

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.


51 posted on 07/03/2017 6:57:16 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
"I believe this theory has been discredited in favor of one of his nephews."

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.

52 posted on 07/03/2017 6:57:20 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Soul of the South

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.


53 posted on 07/03/2017 6:57:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: bgill

The Carr nephews were ruled out due to DNA.


54 posted on 07/03/2017 6:58:32 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Somewhere in there there is a serious lack of nuance....


55 posted on 07/03/2017 6:58:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

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


56 posted on 07/03/2017 6:59:40 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Was it next to the Wine Cellar at Mar-a-Lago?


57 posted on 07/03/2017 6:59:41 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Thanks for this post!
I’ve never heard of this gentleman before.


58 posted on 07/03/2017 7:01:01 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: exit82

“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.”


59 posted on 07/03/2017 7:01:16 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: WellyP

That’s some great input! Thank you for that interesting tidbit!


60 posted on 07/03/2017 7:02:09 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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