Thomas Jefferson's descendants come together despite troubled past 

Slaves did more then help..They did it!

@@storyluis5633 They did the thing! Others participated...as overseers

Help. They built this country with their bare hands all because they wanted free labor.

@@kyradunston7624 exactly

Drake???????????

maisen santiago America would be 200% better if they had the same attitude of Thomas Jefferson’s white great g.....grandson.

@Tiger Lilly it's not that simple. White people have caused pain to all ethnic people in America tho not just the blacks . To the Chinese ,Japanese, Hispanic, Native American tribes, and to the blacks. Face reality ,face the facts. Its like the villain in the movie is totally convinced they're the good guy - but EVERYONE else is like " no your not" 🤔🤔🤔🤔😑

When I hear “woke” it cracks me up.

@@lesleenbarbour-jack6136 Ehhh, I feel you... But we can definitely be racist too . Just because we lack the power and social structure that whites possess doesn't mean that we can't exhibit certain characteristics of stone cold racism. ....But most of the time when we are accused of being "racist" it's actually just "prejudice" like said. Iunno why it's so hard for people to tell the difference though.

O Taite That’s the part they don’t understand.

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@Arid but all of ours where, that is history... Knowing history is a way to learn from it and heal.. accepting out past, learning from it and creating a new and brighter future ❤️ please God

@Arid For all we know, one of your ancestors could have killed one of mine, or vice versa. Let go of the hatred. As James Joyce said, "History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake". The sins of the father do not pass to the children. If you believe otherwise, then I'm afraid I can't go down your path. Peace and best wishes

Steven McBrien That’s not necessarily how I understood Arid’s comment. When you’re on side of the equation, particularly in American’s history, that pain and emotion is visceral ... it’s raw ... it’s innately familiar so I think “coming to terms with it” is a different and many times more difficult journey for some of us.

Good luck telling that to black people

She was the half sister of his wife so they may have looked alike.

She looked just like her sister, I think thats why Thomas Jefferson was so taking with her.

She was beautiful!

They are disgusting

They really DO look just alike!

@learning sharin lol 😂😂😂

Did you know that Sally Hemmings could have been impregnated by 8 Jefferson males and that 5 of them were teenagers and early 20s when she became pregnant and none of those 5 were Thomas Jefferson?Hemmings son Thomas Woodson was proven by the DNA tests to NOT be a Jefferson descendant. His line of descendants had NO Jefferson DNA. Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."To believe that 43 year old Thomas Jefferson was sexually aroused by a 13 year old girl is ridiculous. The DNA tests and human nature more likely presume his nephews or younger brother were the sperm donors.

It’s said that Jefferson’s sons with Hemmings essentially looked like younger brown (“sable”) versions of himself.

genetics trump pigment... periodt

That's rt

Every family has rape in their history.

Umm.........you'd be surprised how many regular mfs have raped generations of family members and gotten away with it. Black and White.

Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."THE DNA TESTS PROVED ONLY THAT HEMMINGS' SON THOMAS WOODSON WAS NOT FATHERED BY THE PRESIDENT. The DNA tests were impossible to use as proof because Jefferson had no legitimate male heirs. The Y chromosomes necessary to prove paternity follow the male line. Jefferson had 5 nephews and a younger brother who could have been the fathers. But one thing is certain, Thomas Woodson has NO JEFFERSON DNA in his line.

You can feel how uncomfortable the white grandson was

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@@hzjohnson1632 - well he is 🥳

And gay.

i agree

He's biracial

I remember watching that show. At one point, a white man (no connection) stood up to voice a complaint, that the Hemings descendants should NOT be buried in the family plot. Lucian challenged him with, “I AM connected, and it doesn’t bother me. Why is it bothering YOU?” The man flustered by saying, “they are black, they have no business being there.”

​@@robertandhollyscorpiofan2697that was an act for the show.

It started as rape... but I guess

Started as colonist engaging in total war on Natives (man, woman and child...also food stores)

@@kingbIIIrIt depended, some colonists were more friendly.

@@forgetful9845 appropriate profile name. Think whatever you want if makes you feel better. However, facts are facts and the extirpation of natives based on racist ideologies is well documented in American history....by white historians. I'm simply telling you the truth but based on your delusions I am sure you will interpret my reply to you as being anti-white somehow. Look both ways before you cross the street and remember to chew your food before you attempt to swallow! G'day.

@@kingbIIIr Yeah, of course. Many colonista were horrible people and subjugated people. And genocide was carried out. But at first there wasnt systematic genocide, at first most of the death was from disease I believe, thats most though.

I can help you. You and I might be a cousin. My grandmother is a Wallace. The Wallace family is from York and Cuba Alabama. Do you have a Facebook? My Facebook name is deacon Brandon Nixon. My email is ben66990@yahoo.com. if you have a Facebook we can keep in Contact.

What is your grandmother name too

Yep.

Oh wow

@@icantletyougetclose1678 what are you talking about ...I am afro Caribbean ..black comes from the continent of Africa and anyone with majority African genes can claim their African ancestry..my hairl is curly, my nose is wide and my skin is black ..this I share with Africans and as such I am able to say I am afro something

Jordan vanburen Vvalker you’re a bot.

Jordan vanburen Vvalker is funny that you say that.. but a lot of the people that live in America are immigrants or from families that immigrated to America .. so stop with the immigrant stuff.. maybe your own ancestors where immigrants..

Honesty and recognition are sorely needed. The Jefferson's have set a wonderful example for us to follow.

Swarthy One Yeap that’s true..

Jordan vanburen Vvalker first of all when I reply to you I did not call you a bot. I just stated facts. So if you got mad or upset is on you. Second of all you can definitely run your mouth cause that all you doing.

Bulldog Brower don’t say that to loud

I agree

No, not really. The White man has his nose and eyes. The Black guy doesn't.

Daveed Diggs is actually Thomas Jefferson’s descendant.

@mrbooglesopus Read my post again, slowly. The White Descendant.

you know damn well you did not tear up

Truth ❤🙏 She was

@@12omle haha this guy 😂😂

Yea, but at what cost?

I did too, I had watched Oprah's interview first and cried.

Facts that's how it felt

I felt it too!

Right

Not his family. Read this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hZPwxJpXuy8.html&lc=UgxZhwheVD-_ysWygF54AaABAg.8wwKku8nJUt9GsCGXajCUN&feature=em-comments

Yez

Yeah, but this story is not true.

They do...the founding fathers are complicated just as any person. Thomas Jefferson for instance understood the hypocrisy of saying "all men are created equal and entitled to equal rights", while he owned slaves. In fact he wrote 3 paragraphs in his original draft of the DoI, condemning Britian for "inflicting the sin of slavery upon her colonies". However it was 1776 and slaves were seen as a necessary evil by the majority of people. You cant simply teach "the truth" as you put it while ignoring context and nuiance that comes with studying the past. Its easy to condemn people when you have 20/20 hindsight but to actually put yourself in that era you realize the world is alot more grey

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America needs to pay reparations for the atrocities it has committed against Foundational Black Americans.

Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."There were 5 young Jefferson's of sexually active age, from Randolph Jefferson's side when Sally Hemmings became pregnant. The DNA tests did NOT prove the President fathered any of Hemmings' children. He is believed by some historians to have fathered Eston hemmings, but even that cannot be proved scientifically.

Me too. It really riles me, the pack of lies we were fed.

Finn even California if I wanna be honest

Totally random tidbit: Mississippi is the only state that hasn't condemned the Armenian Genocide.

this is why i do the research on my own bruh

@Vivien Ola it's a he not a she. Christopher 😂😂😂

Abidjanaise maybe those guys were African Americans, it doesn’t make sense that 99% of people name Washington, jefferson, Jackson are black...in a majority white country

capoislamort100 why not?

Washington is BRITISH..the other surnames Scandinavian

Diaz,phd....with a stupid comment like that.....yeah right....

Amen

I agree with you 100%. There is a difference between deleting history and telling the full history. The Left plays on the emotions of African Americans to help delete history by demonizing White historical figures. This furthers their agenda to delete, so they can replace it with a Marxist version. The Left has sabotaged the BLM movement with propaganda and rhetoric. Innocent people (Black and White) have suffered the consequences of unbridled rage. Every human being is tainted. We all have these "shades of gray" within the pages of our life story. The Scripture says we all have sinned and have fallen short from the glory of God! Confronting these issues can be a societal purging of awkward feelings that have been boiling inside a historical pressure cooker for centuries! This can be a wonderfully cathartic moment in American history that can help unite a newly healed American identity common to all!

Well you beat us Brits in 1776 so Americans have had enough time to get it all together - it's not too late !!!!

@@frankignatius2507 The Marxists left Poland in a right mess in 1990 when I first visited it with my wife, who has Polish ancestory, it was like a third world nation, fortunately it's the jewel in the crown of East Europe now! Commies/Marxists are no better than Facists, ask my MIL who witnessed the Communist regime in action in Poland during 1950's - GULAGS, etc !!!!!!

Can't come together on lies. No definitive proof that Jefferson fathered any of Sally's children, plenty that one of the many other Jefferson men around did, including some testimony by one (or more) of his slaves who was a witness. The line from one son that always claimed it was descended from Jefferson was shown by DNA to be unrelated, period.

It would exist it just would be at the bottom of the pile and it's more like the continent as South America also had slaves.

Leon Henry It wouldn’t exist as we know it today

I'm sure they would have still built structures and homes even if they had no slaves, but the slaves definitely stepped up the progress.

@John Staples It most certainly would not, It's funny how you try to discount all the hard, free forced labor that was done by the slaves, you're delusional.

@John Staples I don't care what you say, slaves built this country, if they weren't essential why did the south fight so hard to keep slavery legal, killing almost 6 million Americans in the Civil War in the process???

Against All Odds it wasn’t just us who build it. A lot of people did. I thought the same, but research stated others.

@@IWantToMature85 who then

You will be by yourself loving him🤢🤮

The enslaved Africans did all the work!

@@IWantToMature85 Our blood sweat & tears are in every part of the WHITE house , & the engire south for tht matter the others helped through a volunteer process , a paid process,and brother hood with others prospering together inventing, creating ,gaining and leaving your mark on the world..... We were slaves, misused,mistreated ,and lied on...we were forced to build that place and trust me I wasn't there but I feel safe In saying they did most the work.

Both of them do. Very handsome indeed. I wish we had a painting of Sally but I believe we don't. At the time, it was well known that the 'house slaves' at Monticello, children of Sally, looked so much like Thomas Jefferson that the lineage was undeniable. It was quite the scandal even then.

He sure does

@@signalfire6 Quite the scandal, even back then. His political opponents tried to use it against him, but he was a 'Teflon Don' I guess...

He sure does...i was thinking the same thing

redcomic619 When I saw this video I was thinking the same thing. He really does.

really ? so Sally was already half white. do they had the same father ?

@@lawtraf8008 yes. They had the same father. So I guess they would all be double cousins through the female line as well

@@justineharper3346 wow...just wow

@@lawtraf8008 nah fam she was quarter white. her mom was already half white

Dakota C I believe both men are loving towards their family and both are telling truths.

​@Gavin Lim Luc is a Jefferson Randolph on his grandmother's side -- she married the general. Luc and I share descendancy from the same Thos. Jefferson Randolph who held hereditary control of the upper graveyard at Monticello that is in contention and are thus part of the most Randolph-y branch of Mr. Jefferson's descendants. Only our branch of the family controls the old section of the graveyard where Mr. Jefferson is buried. No new burials are permitted in it. It is attached to the new section which the Monticello Association controls and where family burials are still permitted. We are both massively displeased at the Association's anti-Hemings attitude and policies.

@Unapologetic White Male, Proud Colonizer What, next thing you say is that Spanish people aren't white, the world is flat and that the moon landing never happened.

@Unapologetic White Male, Proud Colonizer Surely you jest.

1 man against millions of biggety fuckers. good luck with that.

Well you beat us Brits 240 plus years ago it's about time you got the country sorted out Lol !!!!!

@@leonhenry4861 Maybe you misunderstood what I said or meant by it

@@IanP1963 I totally didn’t understand what you wrote 😂. You confused a few people

@@leonhenry4861 sometimes it only takes one to make a change to come for many. Now George Washington family got to tell the truth instead of hiding it

Jennifer Stubbington seems like you’re just a white person that’s saying things so us black people can like you

@@IWantToMature85 Seems like you're just a person (no matter your color/ethnicity/race) whom no one likes.

@ Zachariah Cameron you are an idiot for writing that stupid comment. You should applaud her and many others for speaking the truth even though some will cower and hide behind the truth. She doesn’t know you to want you to like her.

+H M ~ He’s not Black. He’s Russian. Or he might be a Black Russian 😂😂. Those were very tasty back in the day.

+Jennifer Stubbington ~ Thanks Jen❣️

Regarding everything this story offers ,you got to love how the truth will find us out. So w regards to BLM who gets punished and how? Does the left get the chance to tear up anything?

@@ericworiax1277 History is something to learn from be it pleasant or painful. Punishment for whom? What needs to be torn up? The Jefferson family has accepted the past and the Hemmings relatives as family. What more should they do? They can't change the past. Thru acknowledging their past they have done the right thing.

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@@fredabodin9614 The foundation that runs Monticello has accepted the relationship but too few of my Randolph/Eppes side of the family have to say we have "done the right thing" despite what people like me and a few other Randolphs, the Truscotts, many of the Carrs, and miscellaneous Works, Roaches, and Taylors have done to provide them with the best evidence available. The Randolph/Eppes side of the family simply doesn't deserve the kind praise you've offered -- yet. Attrition and the weight of history on time will make the change sometime in the future. In the meantime, sad to say, my side of the family will largely not enjoy the great joy, love, and honor in having family interactions with our Hemmings/Woodson kin.

@@marlastevens9036 What negative comment did I make?

@queens woman No it isn't.

"This man" or these men...

It’s good to acknowledge the bad things that white people did in the past, but to degrade ourselves and have white guilt is not going to help either

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La India Fisherwoman holy moly! I didn’t know that.

I remember I researched this months ago, my history teacher mentioned it. She inherited her father’s slaves, but of course it goes to the husband since women weren’t allowed to own things. I think, if I remember correctly they had some white passing children who were let free and the others were kept.

@@paulamarii1899 there's a documentary about it just type in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings and click on the first thing that comes up it talks about their whole relationship

Which means that- it is entirely possible that they resembled one another.

@@kikigam7113 thanks. I will watch this tonight.

@laina STFU

@laina yes nececssarily .

Well you've had enough time to get your act together, you beat us Brits in 1776 - Lol !!!!!

Burn Lincoln’s memorial he wanted to keep slaves This is a joke lads

Destroying racist statues isn't the same as coming to grips with racist forefathers

I like the statement and hope it is true

Half black!

@@LuvDaSkinUAreIn black is black my dear.

Dra O stfu troll

Sally Hemings was Jefferson’s Mistress. Not legal wife. She was no more a First Lady than Marilyn Monroe was Kennedy’s First Lady. History is interesting enough without distortion. It’s entirely possible Jefferson would have married Sally had he been legally able to do so.

A Masion - She definitely would’ve qualified to be his Common Law Wife.

I'm gladly willing to appreciate that with you. He's a cutie!

Indeed.

Fine af 🥰

FREE HONG KONG

@@FlyingBalcony y e s

what about nascar

@@teli4155 🤣🤣🤣

Nathaniel Harris Well Said!

Or the mecha family

Amen 🙏❤

Can you help me with connecting to family?

@@Take-mk5zc Monticello can help connect you with the Monticello Families group, the group that meets periodically connecting both sides of the Jefferson descendants as well as others such as descendants of other slaves who worked and lived at Monticello plus the Levy family who so lovingly cared for Monticello after it had to be sold to pay Mr Jefferson's debts after his death.

AngieHairBeast crazy right.

I hope that teacher apologized to him at some point. (I realize that was in elementary school though)

Yes he has so much charisma, I wonder if Jefferson was that charismatic or Ms. Hemmings, or both!

Where are they lol

@@dantdt4693 If you scroll down, read some comments and the replies to those comments you'll see it most likely.

It’s sad when they can’t even understand concepts from Maury Povich.

They have proof in the DNA.

America's roots are in racism it will never end

And that work will NEVER get done. The one's who need to do the most aren't willing to.

Cotton is out.

The U.S. Dollar has an old white racist on one side and an Egyptian pyramid on the other side 🤔😉👌🏼 you ever look at it lol

How so?

History is what it is, facts cannot be changed. Lies can cover things up but don't have the power to change fact. People chose to ignore fact all the time. The fact that white power is so threatened by black truth they lie to their own children from day one speaks to their fragility. Each person repeating the lies is accountable regardless of what they were taught. Racism is too obvious to blame anyone but yourself for enabling it.

Sunshine Baker They had the same mother or father?

LadyBizarre father

@Sunshine Baker I think Sally was 3/4 white. Her mother was already half white.

That's even crazy then them telling us this story how did u know that tho??????

@Sunshine Baker Sally was 1/4 black 3/4 white, her mother was half black. Both she and her children looked white from all descriptions of their appearances.

Totally 🙏❤

They family ❤️

You're one in a million. Earth definitely needs more people like you. Namaste 💗

Gemma Sanders well said beautiful to watch and feel the warmth respect and love 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

yeah, fawning over a pos rapist.

Sadly, far too few of my Randolph and Eppes cousins recognize the Hemings as our double-half-cousins. There's still a great deal of work left to do.

Luc used to as a little kid.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Funk that bed give me the bag$

Yes that would right all the wrongs 😂

Seek help.slavery is not a color..

@@andyvanm1 Is that what you would have me believe? I actually believe it. I actually believe they was Hebrews. The Isrealites. The chosen tribe of GOD. According to Deuteronomy and the prophecy on how you would know the identity of the LOST TRIBES OF ISREAL. Thanks!

I think reppreation will help ..when people get recognise for what they generation's have done i do believe it will take alot of the pain aways .. As a person from the Caribbean i share your pains..

@@eileensimon9252 I sure hope you do because this country was built off of slavery not illegal immigrants

It didn't happen to you personally. See a doctor.

Yeah

Actually...this story was in my public school's history textbooks. 3rd-8th grade. 1990s. I've known about Sally for most of my life...

Then you read the wrong history book

Best not to believe TV news if you want truth. TV news tells lies.Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."READ THAT SUMMARY REPORT. CHECK OUT THE CREDENTIALS OF THE SCHOLARS, many with Ph.Ds. There were 8 male Jeffersons around Sally Hemmings when she became pregnant at 13, 5 of them were in their teens and early 20s and presumably more sexually active than the 43 year old statesman. The DNA tests PROVED only that Hemmings' son Thomas Woodson (birthed when she was 17) was NOT a Jefferson. It is highly unlikely that a 43 year old Thomas Jefferson was sexually aroused by children. NOTHING is his life's work indicates he was.

Indeed. We were all basically fed propaganda, all the while being told about how dangerous the Soviet Union was when I was growing up, & the communist propaganda they were supposedly pushing on us. Nothing but bait & switch.

If only Cain were Abel I don’t read the ones they provide to all of the schools. I’m Native American anfd black and we learned very very little about black Americans or Native American history.

Acknowledgement is everything, but the need for a grave site key... crazy.

Rape not beautiful.

Please let explain how this is a beautiful story.

in my understanding, when you say "beautiful story", it's about all the descendant who come together as one family and share peace and love! still they will be someone angry who will not see the true meaning of your message and only quickly drop the allegation of rape and niah niah niah without thinking that they may have been at that time people from different race that was in love, or just had a consent night together, or was just in a common willing to have a children, ... those who cared less about the stupidly oppressing strategic systems yet malicious the government in that era had put in place to increase their power over everyone (people of color, native, white with weak and blind mind,... )

@@ericworiax1277 *YOU are NOT a descendant, so your thinking is YOURS, not THEIRS. Understand that* , and stop calling people crazy.🙄 Blessings!

02278426 say it again!!! Reparations all day everyday!!

LOLLL I'm laughing at your stupidity/ignorance not the evil nature of your comment@Gaius Julius Caesar Plenty of people living safe, abundant lives in Africa, a huge continent with many countries....

02278426 no black person alive today in the USA has experienced slavery like their ancestors did. reparations is a waste of tax money

@@thesenate9275 zzzzzzz

❤

How? What did she do? She founded what, exactly?

Probably because who is banking off of the tours and who paying to maintain their own grave site?

misuzu9254 I read an article from the history channel that he freed them all but only two of the siblings left the others stood.

A commission of leading historians and DNA experts reported in 2001 and again in 2011 that NO DNA evidence exists proving Thomas Jefferson fathered ANY of Sally Hemmings' children. However there is DNA proof that her son Thomas Woodson was NOT sired by Jefferson.Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."

You guys need to learn history. Jefferson took out a mortgage to found the U of Va on the property to a guy named LEVY. Just so happens Jefferson and Adams died on the same day July 4, 1862. Levy gets the property and Jefferson's personal correspondence. So we may never know his arrangements with Sally or future plans to free her because he was probably murdered before he could. I'll let y'all research how the property changed hands over the years. So no, Jefferson didn't personally profit in the end. There's a story Sally being Thomas's sister in law, his late wife's half sister, and an educated refined LADY and travel companion/AUNT to his daughter, her niece, Sally traveled with them to France. She had decided to stay in France as a free woman under French Law. Thomas supposedly proposed she return to America and he'd make sure any children she may have were free. He COULDN'T marry her for Christ's sake. So he kept her in "bondage" because they had to live that way in that time. I just think reducing it to abuse of power and rape and making assumptions is disrespectful to Sally as much as Thomas because you all just assume to know the story. But like others have posted I thought the DNA test couldn't prove these people were Thomas's definitively rather than another male in the Jefferson family. Like I said, unless his correspondence held clues, we'll never know. THANKS LEVY. Hope you are rather warm right now.

Wow! I did not know that part. I knew Jefferson was in debt when he died and an act of Congress I believe absolved his debts or something like that. A Jewish acquaintance of mine told me that many of the southern plantations where cotton was grown were under Jewish ownership. Are you sure Levy got the correspondence?