Thomas Jefferson: The U.S. President Who Fathered Children with an Enslaved African Woman

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The story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings stands at the center of one of the clearest contradictions in American history. Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” yet he enslaved hundreds of people at his Monticello estate. Among them was Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who, according to modern historical consensus, bore at […]
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