Thomas Jefferson DID NOT have children with slaves
Happy 4th of July.
you've likely heard the story that Jefferson had sex with and or abused his slaves. But do you actually know any of the details of the case? Do you know why you believe this story to be true?
[1] https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-notes-on-slavery.php
[2] https://www.tjheritage.org/madison-hemings-interview-article
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/23835
[4] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/research-report-on-jefferson-and-hemings/
[5] https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Sally_Hemings
[7] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/thomas-jeffersons-argument-in-howell-v-netherland-1770/
[8] https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/
[9] https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html
[10] https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html pg 147
[11] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission
[12] https://www.nature.com/articles/16181.pdf
[13] https://www.tjheritage.org/issue-of-jeffersons-issue
[14] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/callender-james-thomson-1757-or-1758-1803/
[15] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-president-again-by-james-thomson-callender-september-1-1802/
[16] https://www.tjheritage.org/an-innocent-man.
[17] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/hideous-hermaphroditical-character-spurious-quotation/
[18] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-adams-out-thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-180960789/
[19] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge-to-joseph-coolidge-october-24-1858/
[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Hemings
[21] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/life-among-the-lowly-no-1-by-madison-hemings-march-13-1873/
[22] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 108
[23] https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slave-memoirs-oral-histories/recollections-of-madison-hemings/
[24] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1873march.html
[25] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 112
[26] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5075
[27] https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/cartoons/2012/09/03/founders-were-good-at-mudslinging/64577920007/
[28] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/french-revolution/
[29] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/thomas-jefferson-accused-of-having-an-affair-oct-19-1796-243831
[30] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/son-half-breed-indian-squaw-quotation/
[31] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/jeffersons-religious-beliefs/
[32] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-first-bitter-contested-presidential-election-takes-place
[33] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-2005
[34] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 7
[35] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 162
[36] https://www.tjheritage.org/natures-false-headline
[37] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-abigail-adams-to-thomas-jefferson-june-27-1787/
[38] https://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/abigail-adams-polly-jefferson-and-sally-hemings.html
[39] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/jefferson-s-attitudes-toward-slavery/
[40] https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/787408.html
[41] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/research-report-on-jefferson-and-hemings/appendix-k-assessment-of-thomas-c-woodson-connection-to-sally-hemings/
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