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Others treated their multiracial children as property; Alexander Scott Withers, for instance, sold two of his children to slave traders, where they were sold again. Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention.
[2] Slave traders who fathered biracial children were part of a widespread "racial and sexual double standard...in the slaveholding states [that] gave elite white men a free pass for their sexual relationships with black women, as long as the men neither flaunted nor legitimated such unions." [3] Tarleton Arterburn [1] Rice C. Ballard [4]: 1816
Scholar Arlene R. Keizer, writing about a work by the African-American artist Kara Walker, argues that she uses cut-paper silhouette to cast "the entire family, white and black, slave masters, slave mistresses, enslaved 'concubines,' and children (following the condition of the mother), into shadow...a dysfunctional family portrait, referencing both the biological families engendered through ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835) Sally Hemings Born Sarah Hemings c. 1773 Charles City County, Virginia, British America Died 1835 (aged 61–62) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Known for Slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, mother to his shadow family Children 6, including Beverly ...
Cultures as diverse as Egypt, in Africa, and Korea, in Asia, have had the rule that the children of enslaved women are born slaves themselves; towards the end of the first millennium AD, most slaves in Egypt were born to enslaved women. [5] A few years later, in 1036, Korea passed legislation whereby the children of slaves were also born slaves ...
John Wayles (1715–1773), English slave trader and father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson. [321] James Moore Wayne (1790–1867), U.S. Congressman and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who owned slaves and had three children by an enslaved woman. [322] Thomas H. Watts (1819–1892), 18th Governor of Alabama and slave owner. [323]
In 1802, the journalist James T. Callender, after being denied a position as postmaster by Jefferson, published allegations that Jefferson had taken Hemings as a concubine and had fathered several children with her. [113] John Wayles held her as a slave, and was also her father, as well as the father of Jefferson's wife Martha. Sally was three ...
The Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. president Thomas Jefferson and his slave and sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and whether he fathered some or all of her six recorded children. For more than 150 years, most historians denied rumors that he had sex with ...