Scholars Overturn Case for Thomas Jefferson's Relationship with Slave Sally Hemings

Capitalism Magazine ^ | June 2, 2001 | J. Patrick Mullins

[Kermit]

Nature besmirched itself in political propaganda, when it published the original article. It was a Clintonian attempt to back up the TRIMPOTUS Bubba's claim that "everyone did it". Nature is clearly an untrustworthy publication and one should take anything they publish with a large grain of salt. They tossed their credibility on the heap of soiled tissues used by the psychopathic President Bubba.

[IronJack]

To recast a nation's future, plunder its past.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Doubt was created two hundred yrs. ago when TJ's hired character assassin (created to lie about Hamilton) turned on him instead because of a perceived slight (even a ignoble hired hand hates being treated with contempt and abandonment.) That is when it began and was never refuted in any credible way (Jefferson just ignored it) and certainly cannot be ruled out a priori. While it is true TJ loved beautiful women I am not sure that that translated into sexual affairs. Maybe he was like GW and loved to flirt but that was as far as he went.

Maybe not, after all Sally's children were the only slaves freed upon his death.

However, Jefferson was as duplicitous a man as ever occupied the White House. He was also one of the most hypocritical and, with the exception of stumbling into the Lousiana Purchase through blind luck, accomplished little of benefit to the U.S. when president. Like Clinton he had no effective opposition and a loyal claque of news media outlets to tout his claimed virtues and attack his enemies with calumnies and falsehoods so he was re-elected.