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A Founding Contradiction

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Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson - The Hemming's Connection

Sally hemmings and thomas jefferson, in some ways, were already related even before they got together in paris. When john wales dies, jefferson and his wife inherit the enslaved people,. They bring the hemmings to monticello, and they are installed as favored servants of jefferson's wife. So it's very, very this is weird for modern people to contemplate sort of two generations of the sort of mixture of families and slavery together.

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