A Founding Contradiction
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Jefferson Freed Sally Hemmings
At the end of his lifea jefferson in effect freed sally hemmings. But didn't do it in a way that just simply said, you know, you are now free. She left monticello with her sons, who were formarly freed. Two youngest ones went to live as white people and did not want freedom papers. So she is not formally freed. She's given her time. And that's the phrase that they used. Annette says, jefferson was rebuked by people who told him he had no business falling in love with a woman who wasn't white.
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