And how would a drunk that was never at Monticello, know anything about Jefferson, his slaves or any children he may have had with a slave?
And why does my idiot IPad not recognize the word ''slave'?
All I'm saying is there has to be more proof than a drunken reporter that hated Jefferson. A maybe story that one of the sons was told his father was Jefferson, because he was named Thomas. And a faulty DNA test.
Two hundred years and we're dragging a great mans name through the mud to try and prove that all white men are evil? Not me! But I'm white.
Ed
Sally had 6 children. She was pregnant when she returned from France at the age of 16. That baby was still born.
One other of her children died shortly after being born.
Two daughters and two sons lived to adulthood. Both daughters left Monticello in their early 20s and disappeared into white society. They probably didn’t want the fact that their mother was a slave be known in the society they lived in as adults. Plus they would have been subject to re-enslavement because of the Fugitive Slave Act. Madison Heming’s is the one that claimed TJ was his father, but not until after the Civil War ended. Easton never publically claimed to be the son of TJ, but did change his last name to Jefferson later in life. Neither of the Heming sons was named Thomas.
There is no irrefutable proof that TJ was the father of the Hemings children. Jefferson did not confirm or deny the rumors of his relationship with Hemings during his lifetime. Sally told her son of his father, but left nothing to substantiate the statement.
The issue of the a biological relationship to TJ is circumstantial. I doubt seriously that it will ever be positively proven or positively disproven, that TJ was the father of Sally Hemings’ children. Personally I don’t see the issue in any way damaging the stature or reputation of Thomas Jefferson as one our countries founding fathers.