Helen F.M. Leary: Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings Research

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Preeminent family historian Helen Leary, CG (Emeritus), FASG, FNGS, discusses her research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Learn about the methodologies she used and how she studied primary records, such as Thomas Jefferson's farm book and letters he wrote to his brother, to build a case establishing that the Hemings children were progeny of Thomas Jefferson.

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  • All the good things Jefferson did and this lady has tunnel vision like a tabloid. She missed all the witnesses that were also at Montichello who never once identified TJ as wanting to have a concubine. Her witnesses are men who had something to gain by tellling lies. She missed the part about his brother always hanging out in the slaves cabins.

  • Annette Gordon-Reed is "flat out" stating on her book cover and inside that TJ fathered 7 of Sally's children. And just think.........she is on one of the Monticello boards. The public is being "conned. This is a vast agenda to "nail" TJ for owning slaves NOT to give the public of what was done on the DNA Study.

    Herb

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  • @herbar1 How can you be so sure? No one is stating definitively that Jefferson was the father. Maybe this old lady is but most just say it's more likely than not. Plus, the reality was that Jefferson's brother lived pretty far away and rarely visited Monticello. What, did he sneak to the plantation in the middle of the night to knock up a slave he didn't even know?

  • She is so cute! Awe I just want to pinch this old lady's cheeks!

  • old hater you world is coming down and you are still trying to hold on to it, the truth will bring all this bull shit down stop these liesssss....

  • Helen Leary was invited to be on the 13 Scholars Commission to investigate this fiasco, she declined. Read Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society web page. She credits Madison Hemings to be a reliable source as does Annette Gordon-Reed BUT he or the reporter LIED about several claims. She claims Randolph was not the father, yet she did not realize that the Eston Hemings family claimed their ancestor to be "a Jefferson uncle or nephew" (Randolph & sons), NOT Thomas.

    Herb Barger

    Founder, TJHS

  • @ZhugeNaut she was freed upon his death by his daughter

  • He "freed" her children or he couldnt enslave them?

    You are reading this enough to convince yourself?

    If he would have freed her she would have had to leave?What happens when you get sold? Do you think she still got to stay at home?

    lol.

    "let the records speak" indeed.

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