• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Unless she’s your slave concubine, then you’re fine. But you should free your own children.

        Also, Sally Hemings was very likely the daughter of John Wayles, Jefferson’s father-in-law. Which makes Sally Hemings the half-sister of Jefferson’s, by then, dead wife.

        She was also between 14 and 16 when Jefferson took her as a concubine.