HISTORY: Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many today refer to as a romance or affair with Sally Hemings. Sally had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property, but also because she was 14-years-old. /1

At 16, Sally (who was 1/2-sister of Jefferson's late wife, btw) became pregnant as the horrifically predictable result of Thomas Jefferson's ongoing sexual abuse. Sally bore 6 of Jefferson's biological children, that we know of, all of whom were seven-eighths (7/8) whi.te. /5

Guests have recounted the children's uncanny resemblance to Jefferson, even as the girls passed busily from kitchen to dining room, serving the guests dinner as part of the enslaved house staff. "One Drop" of Black blood was all that was necessary for "Black"-ness to attach. /6

Legally, this rule formally dictated newborns with any degree of ancestry "mixing" were assigned slave status. This not only gave slaveowners license to abuse the women they owned without fear of inheritance challenge, but allowed them to produce more humans to enslave. /END

@JohnathanPerk It'd be sweet to see this podcast on other platforms.

@chasenye It’s available on Stitcher and via my website as well. Spotify too until recently.

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@JohnathanPerk @threadreaderapp unroll, please.

@JohnathanPerk Thank you.

@JohnathanPerk Assuming facts not in evidence. Nevertheless your speculation will no doubt resonate with many believers.

@JohnathanPerk Added!

@JohnathanPerk Did he have a side room where she was kept all the time for his 'convenience' too.

@JohnathanPerk Your “history” gets basic facts wrong, ignores how the Hemingses themselves felt, and overlooks that most of the children could and did pass as white

@JohnathanPerk What a fantastic thread. Thank you. So sad.

@JohnathanPerk Sally Hemmings mom was a half-sibling of Jefferson's first wife. It's a multigen problem.

@JohnathanPerk the fact of the matter is nobody now living really knows what kind of relationship there was between the two and you are just guessing, as well as using them for your own gain. cashing in on a corporate lead and generated way to keep us from going after wall street.

@JohnathanPerk This history is so sad and absolutely needs to be told. If tender little white kids can’t take it, what kind of weak generation is that?

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@JohnathanPerk And…there’s the shameless plug. Knew it was coming.

@JohnathanPerk I saw a doc recently called the cotton pickin south. Is it true that in the early 2000s Mississippi still had slaves? Do they still have them in 2022?

@JohnathanPerk Just read about this today in @nhannahjones ’ #1619Project too. I was struck by this: such laws *incentivized” white slaveowners to rape the Black women they owned. They could be enriched by doing so, & face zero legal repercussions. @DorothyERoberts ’ chapter, Race, is excellent.

@JohnathanPerk I hope you don't expect your opinions to be taught as "history."

@JohnathanPerk you got me subscribed sad but good to know

@JohnathanPerk I didn’t know any of that. It’s horrifying. We must teach the truths of our past.