Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson..pics from Jefferson in Paris & Sally Hemings An American Scandal...pics from www.samneill.com

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[benthemiester]

"but there is a major logical gap in your thought process here: if Sally simply stayed in France, her children would never be enslaved in the first place"

Your assuming to much. It makes no sense for there to be a promise made about children that weren't born yet. This is backwards thinking. She already had children in the states under his ownership. I'm not sure why that is so hard to understand. The guy was scum. An intelligent man yes, but scum. All the white washing wont change that.

[whayes8084]

LOL!

[anitalc1]

See Helen F.M. Leary video on YT about Jefferson/Sally Hemings.

[6183078]

way to white to play roll

[Krysprocks1]

I have to do her for a project

[SaraiCrazyShow]

@benthemiester Except that there is absolutely no evidence that she had children in the states since she was about 14 when she went to Paris.

[TrentSteeele]

This is the 1873 account of this issue as reportedly given by Madison Hemings:

"He desired to bring my mother back to Virginia with him but she demurred. She was just beginning to understand the French language well, and in France she was free, while if she returned to Virginia she would be re-enslaved. So she refused to return with him. To induce her to do so he promised extraordinary privileges, and made a solemn pledge that her children should be freed at the age of twenty-one years."

[TrentSteeele]

Jefferson would never even have had any power over the slave or non-slave status of her children at any stage in their lives had she simply not come back with him, as, according to her son Madison, she and her brother James were considering. Essentially, then, it would seem that she was thinking of NOT going back out of concern for her child (and any future children), but was willing to return once the issue was settled by Jefferson's promise.

[TrentSteeele]

@benthemiester Benthemeister:

1. Yet again, assuming the Jefferson/Hemings affair started in 1780s France, Sally WAS NOT a slave at the time; while they were in France, where slavery was illegal, she was free, and she knew it.

2. Yes, I admit that if this narrative is accurate, there was an agreement that Jefferson would free her children, but there is a major logical gap in your thought process here: if Sally simply stayed in France, her children would never be enslaved in the first place.

[loveyankee2]

@IsabellaMorte Your comment honestly made me laugh. Just how you claimed there are many points that are against him having a realtionship with her, there are 3 times as many points that said he had. And how does the fact that he was trying to woo Maria dispute the fact he had sexual relations with Sally, men have been having sex with multiple women at one for centuries. It seems to me you can't accept the fact that the good old Jefferson was doing a black slave girl. Well' he did. Sorry