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To: Father Terrence who wrote (29784)	1/31/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

"...and he took her to France with him during his travels." And she went to France, I think, before his marriage to her "mistress," who probably was her half-sister. N.B. In France, slavery was illegal at that time. Sally could have walked out the door at any moment and been "free." Relationships between people are so much more complicated than the PC world wants to ackowledge.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (29784)	1/31/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

>>>>>Actually Jefferson did see the inconsistency later in life and went on the speaker's circuit around the States and spoke against slavery<<<<< I don't think so. I took the kids to Monticello during last Thanksgiving break. At the time of his death, Jefferson owned approximately 200 slaves. He freed one, his butler, whose last name was Hemmings, I think John Hemmings. He would not allow any slave to light a fire in his house, except his butler. He forbade them from learning to write, so that they would not be able to forge a pass and escape. His daughter had a dozen children, and outlived two husbands. Jefferson had thousands of acres planted in wheat, and a self-indulgent life-style. He needed slaves. People back then were very afraid that their slaves would murder them. It did happen, from time to time. Remember "The Confessions of Nat Turner"? The Romans were afraid of it, too. Remember "Spartacus"? When I studied at Tulane, a professor told the class, and me, that the first slave uprising in Louisiana occurred on a plantation owned by my ancestors. The slaves were punished by being crucified, all along the Mississippi, on the bluffs (no levee then).