BrokeLoser
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- Sep 9, 2016
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You mean like how blacks do it today in the hood?Classifying people by "race" has been around since at least when white men classified anyone with even one black ancestor as non-white. Sally Hemmings was considered a slave when she lived as Thomas Jefferson's "concubine" but she was also the half sister of Jefferson's late wife (They had the same father). Jefferson basically held his sister-in-law as a slave concubine.
Being a widower, he could have married her, but even if he had wanted to (we dont' know), he was prohibited from doing so by the laws of the time. Were the children that Jefferson had with his sister-in-law, Sally Hemmings, treated as legal heirs of thir father Thomas Jefferson's considerable estate?
Oh, it gets worse. Hemmings was in fact three quarters white, as her mother was half white.
The ugliest of this, there is the racial ugliness in the first place. On top of this is the amount of white men who abandoned the products of their own bodies, their own sons and daughters, and even held them in slavery., the fathers who never claimed and protected their own children.