Okay, so I’ve done some research on this, not much, but I plan to do more, that being said, this is what I know.
Thomas Jefferson had a wife who died young.mhe absolutely cherished her loved her deeply. He was heart broken and never remarried. He was a quiet, reserved man that let people have their own opinions without trying to silence them at all. He believed that people were capable of making their own decisions and what to believe. In fact, one morning, as he took he daily, solitary ride, he came across a man that reads the newspaper, one that slanders jefferson to the point that you would not believe. He immediately began talking about how awful president jefferson was. Jefferson, knowing what was happening, smiled and asked the man if he would say the same thing to the president himself if the president was willing to meet with him. The man agreed and that evening, went to the presidential mansion, met jefferson and realized his mistake. In fact, this happened to many people in different ways. They expected some ruff, load guy with no manners, but instead met one of the most polite, gentlemen like person. I say this to give an example of lying newspapers.
Now, there was a news paper writer that strongly believed in the, I don’t have to prove it may just print it. So, he made up several insane stories all the time, not just about jefferson. On of these stories was about the whole Sally affair.
Before I dive into that, I must point out that jefferson hated slavery. Yes, he did have slaves, but he hated having them as slaves, but It was at the time, pretty much impossible to run a plantation without slaves, especially in that market and era. He fought for the freedom of slaves regularly and more vigorously than hamilton. In fact, I believe he was one of the founding fathers that fought the hardest. He regularly freed his slaves, after providing them with an education and a trade so they could survive in the world without starving to death. And when slaves ran away, he put forth no effort to hunt them down. And when slaves did something terrible or in the time, would normally warrant a lashing, ( which I would never agree with as I hate slavery and punishing thereof) he would simply take them aside, talk to them a bit and send them on their way. Never a whip or other punishment in sight.
Sally was a slave in his houshold, however, Thomas rarely ever saw her. They almost never ran into each other. Jefferson was always either working, in his chambers, inspecting his crops, or on a ride. They hardly ever saw each other. However, thomas’ brother was staying at Monticello at the time. His brother was much different that Tommy J. No where near as kind, understanding, or gentleman like. And he was notorious for such affairs as the Sally affair. If anyone in the jefferson household was doing such a thing, it would be the brother. Thomas did not approve of his brother and think he took steps to intervene in this, but it’s can’t remember so I must dedicate more time to this.
So all in all, Thomas Jefferson never touched Sally or any other slave.
( I apologize for misspellings, I’m on mobile and on a device that likes to mess with my words. And the keyboard is the size of a cracker)
Yours truly, a history nerd. Sorry that was so long, this is just a subject I see everywhere and get annoyed because I hate seeing a good person slandered for something that he didn’t do.
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