Seems only only one of Sally’s children were fathered by a Jefferson and Sally was Thomas Jefferson’s wife’s servant. I imagine here quarters were close to Jefferson and his wife’s quarters.
Sally herself was very light skinned. In the 1830 census, she, and two sons, living with her at the time, were listed as white.
We visited Monticello last March. 99% of the theme was the “enslaved people” who were treated so terribly that they were sent to Paris to learn the culinary arts. Many of these “oppressed people” were dining off of fine bone china and even owned their own sets. I was appalled at the total revisionist narrative and lib spin.
As you read the placards of the actual history, the tour guides were telling you something completely different. Kind of like today’s mainstream media!
Certainly? He 'certainly knew'? From where do you draw that conclusion, I'm curious to know.
Sorry, just too many fairy tales.
When I visited, they had wood huts where the slaves lived.
If you have time, I would recommend to you to read the extensive research report done by Monticello about the whole question of Sally Hemmings. Jefferson kept extremely detailed dairies about the running of the plantation so that we know exactly when he was in Virginia. In those notes are dates when each of Sally’s children were born, which allows the possibility of tracing back to conception. Mr. Thomas Jefferson was the only Jefferson male present for each of those times. There is a lot of other information as well.
What I was stunned to learn is that Sally Hemmings was Jefferson’s wife half sister! Her mother was the concubine of her father and that had been the situation in that slave family for a couple generations so that Sally was actually mostly of Caucasian ancestry. But the laws of Virginia forbid her to be listed as such because her mother was a slave. So contrary to TV presentations, Sally did not have the appearance of being a slave. When she was freed and lived in her own home after Jefferson’s death, the census listed her as white - as were several of her sons.
back in the day, Jefferson’s enemies used the rumor to disparage Jefferson.
I have read that during the time of the DNA testing of the Hemming’s descendants at best the accuracy was such that it could be narrowed down TJ & his brothers. Edmund being the likely culprit since he was known at the time as one who “squired around with and sampled the charms of the local servant class”. As far as I have read, which is about ever historically “legitimate” book on Thomas Jefferson, TJ didn’t have a “local” reputation for doing that.
I vote Edmund! Due to the DNA and local lore.
If only Martin Luther King Jr., the only man to have a named federal holiday, was subject to the same evocative scrutiny.
Allow me to rephrase myself.
MLK wouldn’t have a his own national holiday if he was subject to the same scrutiny as Thomas Jefferson.