I looked up Sally Hemings. She was an octoroon, (one eighth black) and paintings of her depicts Sally as a beautiful woman who, in our times, a white man of taste would be proud to have on his arm.
There’s also the question of which one of the Jefferson brothers fathered the black Jefferson line.
As for Washington’s dentures, he had lost all his natural teeth by age 30. He had several dentures made by different dentists, but only the one made with hippopotamus ivory allowed him to chew comfortably.
“....but only the one made with hippopotamus ivory allowed him to chew comfortably.”
I can see by this why John Holiday turned to cards. No money in hippo teeth.
rwood