Posted on 11/20/2024 3:54:29 PM PST by American Renaissance Network
Final Observations on the Sally Hemings Controversy (from Potomac Tea Partyâs Guardians of History team) - The Left Spins Another Yarn to Trash the Founders
Leftist historians are akin to flat earth scientists.
Meh, he was widowed, never remarried. And it’s well documented she went to Paris with him during his time there. She could have stayed in Paris free, but decided to return to Monticello with Jefferson. By all accounts she was 3/4 white younger than him and attractive. She learned French also.
Nothing really weird about it, and I can’t see how it trashes him. And it fits in with his wildly curious, rebellious and iconoclastic nature.
No big deal except at Stormfront maybe.
How do you know that he ever had an affair with her?
I believe they have dna tested many of her descendants and he is in fact their ancestor
Madison Hemings, a son of Sally, claimed that his mother told him that Jefferson was his father, but also said that Jefferson never treated him as if he were his son. Fawn Brodie found a newspaper report from 1873 detailing that. But the census taker in 1870 had a note next to Madison Hemings' name saying that "this man is the son of Thomas Jefferson" (obviously based on what Madison told him). Another line of Sally's descendants also had a family tradition of being descended from Thomas Jefferson.
Sally was the half sister of Jefferson's wife.
So at this point the Y-DNA evidence doesn't conclusively prove that Thomas Jefferson fathered any of her children, but a lot of people would accept that he did when coupled with the oral traditions.
Someone showed that Jefferson was always at Monticello about the time that Sally conceived. But of course his relatives might be more likely to be visiting the place then too.
Sam Adams commented on Jefferson’s relationship with Hemings. Sally was a gift to Jefferson’s wife. They were 1/2 sisters, Sally was fathered by Jefferson’s father in law. White slave owners that bedded a slave accused the poor women of being a “bed witch”. I used to believe Jefferson was innocent but it is pretty hard to deny when you take a deep dive.
I believe the rumor started as political...and it is more likely than not....a relative of Thomas’.
No, Thomas Jefferson has NOT been proved to be their ancestor. The DNA only proved that a Jefferson male was the father of Hemings’ children, and there were several possibilities.
Everyone is forgetting about Randolph, Thomas’ brother, who was much more likely to consort with the slaves.
Do some more study.
I just said it fits well, seems likely in that she was young and in his circle, lived and traveled with him, and he never sought the companionship of any other female, and TJ’s sister got along with her. And there are more than a few indications in the papers from that era... including accusations from his enemies.
As far as I know nobody has a video.
And he went far out of his way to convince her to return to Monticello with him from Paris complete with a promise of “extraordinary privileges”.
It would be much more strange if he had no interest in her. It’s not like he was a maniac running into the fields and grabbing some illiterate slave right off the boat. She was a quarter black, likely the half sister of his deceased wife.
very natural that they should take up together.
No they didn’t prove that. To prove that they would have to dig up Thomas Jefferson. The story itself was defense of Bill Clinton done by the British journal Nature. It was such wild speculation that the American journal Science immediately came out with a rebuke of the journal Nature.
The Sally Hemmings lies are disgusting beyond belief. Leftists have poisoned Monticello with the lies, which Trump needs to immediately dismantle.
BINGO. Randolph was the guy, but Thomas was the one the leftists have focused on over the past 50 years.
There’s a lot about the culture of those times, and of Thomas Jefferson’s temperament, that I don’t think you know or are considering.
Political enemies in those days are no different from those of today; they will accuse all sorts of things that are not true at all. In some ways, they were even more vicious than ours are today.
Thomas deeply loved and grieved his wife, barely leaving his room for months after her death; and he wasn’t a very hot-blooded man, was actually what we might call today a ‘cold fish’, far more intellectual than passionate. And he despised slavery, and did everything he could to enable slaves to be free - when slaves ran away from Monticello, as soon as he knew they were doing alright on their own, he didn’t do anything to get them back; and he helped to educate Sally’s own brother, made him his chef, and manumitted him.
Learn about his brother, Randolph; and read some of the correspondence between them. You might get a clue.
That’s because Randolph was a simpleton compared with Thomas; and Thomas was one of the fathers of the Nation that they want to demonize.
No, if anything, it was more likely his nephew.
Well, tell us what you know about this ‘nephew’.
I just remember reading something about it at the time. I think the point is, they found it could be a relative of Jefferson.
Or his father, his brother, etc.
She was an illiterate and her fame retroactively surpasses the French Revolution era which needs to be studied. No Antony and Cleopatra level attainment levels are ever reached, I believe.
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