• @chaogomu
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    155 days 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.