@izzythepush,
So a woman loss the right to love and have children with someone by her own wishes if the society at the time have her as a slave of the man?
In a strange manner you agree with the slave owners in the right to take away freedoms from women.
He had a relationship with the lady for many decades and as far as is known he did not have relationships with other women be they slave or free women during that time period.
Sound like a secret common in law marriage to me at a time when it was again the law an the society to married across the color lines let alone to someone class as a slave.
But if does not for some reason shock me that you are on the same side as the racists an slave supporters.
footnote she travel outside of the US and was free to leave him during those times.
Sally Hemings remained in France for 26 months; slavery was abolished in that country after the Revolution in 1789. Jefferson paid wages to her and James while they were in Paris. He paid Sally Hemings the equivalent of $2 a month. In comparison, he paid his Parisian scullion $2.50 a month, and James Hemings $4 a month as chef in training. The French servants earned from $8 to $12 a month.[28] Toward the end of their stay, James used his money to pay for a French tutor and learn the language. Sally Hemings also was learning French.[14] There is no record of where she lived: it may have been with Jefferson and her brother in the Hôtel de Langeac on the Champs-Elysées, or at the convent Abbaye de Panthemont where the girls Maria and Martha were schooled. Whatever the weekday arrangements, Jefferson and his retinue spent weekends together at his villa.[29] Jefferson purchased some fine clothing for Hemings, which suggests that she accompanied Martha as a lady's maid to formal events.[30][31]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings#Hemingses_in_Paris
Under French law, both Sally and James could have petitioned for their freedom, as the 1791 revolutionary constitution in France abolished slavery in principle.[32] Hemings had the legal right to remain in France as a free person; if she returned to Virginia with Jefferson, it would be as a slave. According to her son Madison's memoir, Hemings became pregnant by Jefferson in Paris. She was about 16 at the time. She agreed to return with him to the United States, based on his promise to free their children when they came of age (at 21).[14][33] Hemings' strong ties to her mother, siblings and extended family likely drew her back to Monticello.[34][35]
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