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The image of the third president of the United States, Physson, has always been majestic and tall in the minds of Americans, but at the same time, there are many rumors about this high president, among which one of the longest-debated rumors is related to black slaves.
According to a person familiar with the matter, Jefferson and a black slave gave birth to six children, although the Jefferson family flatly denied this, but the matter still spread throughout the country at a rapid speed.
And when Jefferson was in the political arena, this rumor also broke out, saying that he had a child with a black slave, which caused an uproar at the time.
So, did Jefferson, the founding father of the United States, really have descendants of black slaves, and what happened between him and this black slave?
A smooth path to politics
Jefferson was born into a very wealthy family, and his father was a farmer who owned countless lands and black slaves.
Jefferson's father, in order to train him into a high class, sent him to school at a very young age, and later sent him to major in Latin, which was a status symbol at the time.
After the death of Jefferson's father, Jefferson inherited a large inheritance from his father.
Later, he graduated from the College of William and Mary and began a new chapter in his life, which was to enter American politics. His goal has always been clear: to go into politics.
So he started running for parliament, because his father left him a huge inheritance, so he had plenty of money to prepare. In addition, he was young and promising, so there were many people who supported him at that time.
At a young age, he was elected to the Virginia State Assembly in 1769 and later wrote the Declaration of Independence, becoming the founding father of the United States.
After he became a councillor, he and Martha met and fell in love, and entered the palace of marriage. Martha is the widow of a wealthy man, she inherited her husband's inheritance, and her own family is very well-off, and after the two are married, the wealth becomes even more.
The combination of these two wealthy men also made Jefferson's political career smoother, because he had more adequate financial support.
Born to a black slave
Due to the medical conditions at the time, Jefferson's wife died after giving birth to her seventh child.
In order to establish this man, Jefferson also brazenly said that his wife would always be Martha, and he would never marry anyone else.
Later the appearance of Sully broke everything. At the age of 11, Sully became Jefferson's maid, a black maid but Martha's half-sister.
One might wonder why Martha is white and her sister is black.
Because she was the child of Martha's father and a black slave, the status of black slaves was very low at that time, and if a white man had black blood, it was regarded as shameful by the people at that time, so Martha's father was also ashamed to admit his biological flesh and blood.
Martha's father is also very hypocritical, obviously looking down on black people, but he still wants to have children with black people, so he refuses to recognize him as Sally's father.
In his third year as Jefferson's servant, the 14-year-old Sully had already become his "personal belongings" and a confinement for Jefferson to satisfy his own desires, and his behavior was extremely bad at all times.
Extreme hypocrisy
There are no impermeable walls in this world. Soon, Jefferson's birth to a child with a black slave was known and publicized.
Although there was no Internet in those days, it was still impossible to underestimate people's love of gossip, and this incident even appeared in the local newspaper at the time, and reporters would ask him related questions when interviewing Jefferson.
Political enemies at the time also seized on this incident and began to make a big fuss, so at that time, Jefferson was still very troubled by this matter.
What is surprising is that Jefferson, who has always been soft-spoken and gentle in front of people, has a rare tantrum after hearing a reporter's question.
Perhaps he also thought that as long as he didn't mention it, people would gradually forget about it over time. But what he didn't expect was that not only was this matter discussed during his lifetime, but even many years after his death, it would be turned up and discussed.
Old Affair
After Jefferson's death, he had six children with black slaves and reappeared in the public eye, this time by an old man named Hemmings.
He reported to a newspaper and produced many photos. At first glance, Madison Hemmings and Jefferson do have similarities.
This news instantly attracted everyone's attention, although the Jefferson family stood up to deny the matter at the first time, and there were many Jefferson supporters who defended him.
Moreover, Jefferson's image is very tall and majestic in the eyes of many white people, so white people can hardly accept that this white supremacist will have an affair with black slaves and have offspring.
However, the power of public opinion cannot be underestimated, and there are still many voices of doubt, believing that there is nothing groundless in the world.
In order to minimize the impact, the Jefferson family did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire a well-known professor at Yale University to write a biography of Jefferson, so that he could focus on explaining the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings in the biography, and wanted to put the incident that Hemings broke out on Jefferson's nephew.
So how did this come to light in the end? It turned out that it was with the help of technology.
By comparing the genes of the Jackson family and the Hemings family, it was found that in males, the genes of the Y chromosome almost completely coincided, and the test results came out.
Previously, the Jackson family swore that it was Hemings and Jefferson's nephew who had an affair, which was purely a false accusation.
epilogue
Jefferson was the founding father of the United States and played an irreplaceable role in American politics, and many whites regarded him as the supreme leader.
Jefferson himself paid great attention to creating a positive image of himself, but he had an affair with a black slave and gave birth to six children, although he refused to admit it when he was alive and hypocritically disguised himself, but paper cannot contain fire after all, and there will always be a day when the truth will be revealed.
Years later, the rumors of the founding fathers of the United States and black slaves were finally confirmed by technology, and the Y chromosomes were almost identical through genetic comparison.
Jefferson and the Hemmings family are indeed biologically related, and what the founding father of the United States did was really embarrassing, saying one thing and doing another, and there was an even more hypocritical mask under the mask.
Although Jefferson himself was very taboo about this matter before his death, and the Jefferson family also flatly denied this matter, but the facts are the facts, the truth is the truth, and no matter how you justify it, it is useless.
Information sources for this article:
1. Catherine Collison "White and Black: The Daughters of the Father of the Nation"