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Remember that Thomas Jefferson's "slave" Sally Hemmings accompanied him to Paris where she was free and did not have to return to America with Thomas Jefferson yet she chose to return to America. Is a person who is free who chooses to remain with a "master" really a slave.

submitted by Crackinjokes to History 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 08:13:53 ago (+38/-4)     (History)

Remember that Thomas Jefferson's "slave" Sally Hemmings accompanied him to Paris where she was free and did not have to return to America with Thomas Jefferson yet she chose to return to America. Is a person who is free who chooses to remain with a "master" really a slave.

Selling Hemmings was also his dead wife spitting image because she was her half sister.

Every story you hear about Thomas Jefferson mistreating his quote slave Sally Hemmings needs to be corrected with these facts.

It was all nonsense.


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[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 5 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 08:43:45 ago (+5/-0)

Not for nothing, but she was 14 at the time they were in Paris and I'm fairly sure she didn't speak French. Also, France was on the brink of violent revolution which she'd have likely heard about.

She wasn't mistreated, none of the slaves at Monticello were. Jefferson was an abolitionist. He wasn't no damn nigger lover though.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 5 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 09:35:07 ago (+5/-0)

I don’t know, who takes a 14 year old girl with them on a long journey if not for a tag a long piece of ass?

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 4 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 10:06:56 ago (+4/-0)

She was there to tend to his daughters needs. They didn't stay at the same place, he only would have seen her when he visited his daughter.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 22:22:27 ago (+0/-0)

He took a child along to care for his children? Is this true? Seems I you know more on this topic as I know nothing and am just assuming.

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 22:58:07 ago (+0/-0)

What planet do you live on? Have you never heard of teenagers being babysitters before? My parents used to leave me to babysit my brothers when I was 11 or 12. Then again, that was long before the Tide Pod eating Tik Tok generation, so maybe kids and teens are all complete retards now.

Things back in Jefferson's time were a lot different than today. There were kids 10 years old and younger in the military. In 1822 in England the legal age for marriage was 14 for boys and 12 for girls. So Jefferson's 14 year old wasn't a child by the standards of the time.

Today people seem determined to draw childhood out until about age 30. I saw somebody on Youtube expressing shock that she had a baby at age 23, like that was too young.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 11 monthsJul 19, 2023 00:04:38 ago (+0/-0)

Different time kids used to run farms.

Unlike now they run out of energy walking to the kitchen.

[ - ] zongongo 4 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 10:38:24 ago (+4/-0)

France is full of beautiful girls. If he wanted to fuck, he would have had his pick surely.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 12:40:03 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, exactly. Jefferson wasn't oil drilling. It's a damn lie. The bigger the lie, the easier it is for retards to accept it as reality, and this is a big damn lie

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 22:21:01 ago (+0/-0)

A trip to France on a boat back then would have taken a month at least.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 11 monthsJul 19, 2023 00:05:31 ago (+0/-0)

Australians agree.

[ - ] Sector7 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 14:41:11 ago (+0/-0)

Someone not in the throes of hormonal obsessions?

[ - ] Grymes22 2 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 11:37:02 ago (+2/-0)

Leather Apron Club has done some research on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaXwvH2T0WI

[ - ] carnold03 1 point 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 09:51:00 ago (+1/-0)

When Thomas Jefferson married his wife Martha, was he already a slave owner at the time or did she bring them with her? If he owned slaves prior to marrying his wife, how many were previously her property and how many were previously his? How many of their slaves were also half-siblings?

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 1 point 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 10:10:05 ago (+1/-0)

He came from a wealthy family, the slaves belonged to the family estate that was Monticello. You could just as accurately described the slaves as belonging to his brother. Martha was dead by the time this particular slave was roaming the estate.

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 11 monthsJul 18, 2023 12:47:08 ago (+0/-0)

YouTube Leather Apron Society for more info on Sally and debunking smears at Jefferson.