A Founding Contradiction
Hidden Brain
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Jefferson's Relationship With Sally Hemmings
In those days, it was much more than father knows best what he said would go. He had basically the freedom to impose a kind of order on this place that everybody went along with. The idea that a man would have a mistress or a companion like this, was normal in virginia. It was not considered crazy. But mixed children, these kinds of connections from rape, two sort of long terme liaisons, however you want to call them, were a part of slave societies. And they have been in every slave society that has ever existed.
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