Interesting debate.
I have no dog in this hunt but find still find it fascinating. The evidence is persuasive (of TJ’s involvement) as an armchair spectator, but recognize that it would be more problematic in a court of law.
So I don’t doubt the possibility but remain neutral. What is fascinating however is the attitudes of those who are so stridently opposed to the possibility. Why do you think they so greatly fear the chance that TJ boinked the servant?
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.
I think it’s because the founders have been elevated to an almost Devine status.
People lose sight that while they did something pretty amazing, they were just men, with failings and flaws.
Personally, while I think Jefferson wrote some real pretty stuff, I have far more respect for the farmer who left his family, joined a militia, and laid down his life to establish our independence.
It’s the American people that makes America great, not the government or any politician.
What is fascinating however is the attitudes of those who are so stridently opposed to the possibility. Why do you think they so greatly fear the chance that TJ boinked the servant?
Yes, it’s like they deny that sex is possibly the strongest force after gravity that humans face. He’s widowed, a single woman is sleeping inches from him, they are alone... seriously??? He Would Not have done it? Where is human nature here?
Best illustration of this is in W. Somerset Maugham stories, like the Rain (if I have the name right, the one about the Pastor and the prostitute on a pacific island). Human nature, people.
She was half white and alone all night next to him. She was his owned property.