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Didn't TJ have a problem with his slave becoming pregnant so many times? How useful would she have been pregnant that many times? How much work can you do when you're pregnant? It could have been years' worth of down time. And what about the morality aspect? Did he not have a problem with his unmarried slave having child after child? And who paid for the day-to-day existence of so many children? Jefferson?

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Didn't TJ have a problem with his slave becoming pregnant so many times?

So many times? She had six children in eighteen years- if anything that was a low output two hundred years ago.

How much work can you do when you're pregnant? It could have been years' worth of down time.

Slaves (or most anyone else) in ca. 1800 didn't get maternity leave- you worked at your tasks/chores until you were ready to deliver, and you were put back to work as soon as you could stand up.

Did he not have a problem with his unmarried slave having child after child? And who paid for the day-to-day existence of so many children? Jefferson?

Slaves could not legally marry- so the morality issue was minimal. Jefferson was responsible for the food/clothing/shelter of his slaves, but remember he owned all slaves born on the plantation- he could sell them if he wished. Later on as the lower South was populated, excess slaves from Virginia would be sold to owners in Alabama or Mississippi.

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hard to think he wasn't the dad or at least knew who the dad was. I think the DNA is saying that these black folks are Jeffersons, at least let them into the family reunions.