[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You probably know more then I do about it. Last time I knew there was debate because TJ had no male decedents that were available for DNA so all they could say was that her children were descended from TJ’s father's offspring. And since one of the brothers tended to hang around with the slaves it might have been him.

That was years ago though so things might have changed.

The thing that was weird was that Sally was probably his dead wife's half sister. Which under the morays of the time would have meant she should have been off limits to him.

Who knows if he followed that rule though.

[SunkenCiv]

I don’t think it’s a particularly unusual thing that Jefferson fathered children with a woman he owned. The manic denial that it happened is probably just a manifestation of the more general denial that it was a common practice among slaveowners.

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