Thomas Jefferson DID NOT have children with slaves

Happy 4th of July.

you've likely heard the story that Jefferson had sex with and or abused his slaves. But do you actually know any of the details of the case? Do you know why you believe this story to be true?

[1] https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-notes-on-slavery.php
[2] https://www.tjheritage.org/madison-hemings-interview-article
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/23835
[4] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/research-report-on-jefferson-and-hemings/
[5] https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Sally_Hemings
[7] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/thomas-jeffersons-argument-in-howell-v-netherland-1770/
[8] https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/
[9] https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html
[10] https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html pg 147
[11] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission
[12] https://www.nature.com/articles/16181.pdf
[13] https://www.tjheritage.org/issue-of-jeffersons-issue
[14] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/callender-james-thomson-1757-or-1758-1803/
[15] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-president-again-by-james-thomson-callender-september-1-1802/
[16] https://www.tjheritage.org/an-innocent-man.
[17] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/hideous-hermaphroditical-character-spurious-quotation/
[18] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-adams-out-thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-180960789/
[19] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-ellen-wayles-randolph-coolidge-to-joseph-coolidge-october-24-1858/
[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Hemings
[21] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/life-among-the-lowly-no-1-by-madison-hemings-march-13-1873/
[22] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 108
[23] https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slave-memoirs-oral-histories/recollections-of-madison-hemings/
[24] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1873march.html
[25] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 112
[26] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5075
[27] https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/cartoons/2012/09/03/founders-were-good-at-mudslinging/64577920007/
[28] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/french-revolution/
[29] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/thomas-jefferson-accused-of-having-an-affair-oct-19-1796-243831
[30] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/son-half-breed-indian-squaw-quotation/
[31] https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/jeffersons-religious-beliefs/
[32] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-first-bitter-contested-presidential-election-takes-place
[33] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-2005
[34] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 7
[35] https://www.tjheritage.org/the-scholars-commission pg 162
[36] https://www.tjheritage.org/natures-false-headline
[37] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-abigail-adams-to-thomas-jefferson-june-27-1787/
[38] https://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/abigail-adams-polly-jefferson-and-sally-hemings.html
[39] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/jefferson-s-attitudes-toward-slavery/
[40] https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/787408.html
[41] https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/research-report-on-jefferson-and-hemings/appendix-k-assessment-of-thomas-c-woodson-connection-to-sally-hemings/

0:00 Pop Media Clips
0:41 Introduction
2:00 Mainstream Narrative
3:13 Sally Hemings
5:39 Jefferson Background
7:33 DNA Study
9:51 TJ Foundation Report
10:44 Scholar's Commission
12:11 Callender Article
14:16 Thomas Woodson
16:48 Contemporary Testimony
19:56 Pro-paternity Bias
21:06 Madison Hemings Testimony
25:44 Jefferson in Paris
30:13 Hemings' and Jefferson's Testimony
33:52 Who was the Father?
36:26 Motivations
38:43 Conclusion