If you watched the film Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones' character, Thaddeus Stevens, is shown to be in a relationship with his "housekeeper"
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It's unconfirmed if their relationship was sexual but it seems possible -- and marriage would've been illegal at the time and a scandal
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There are possibilities other than "true love" that allow her some agency in the decision. Annette Gordon Reed's work is good on this.
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(She's one of the first historians to take Hemings family oral tradition seriously, instead of just accepting white Jefferson stories.)
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