There are stories where you can look for the possibility of "true love" in a deeply unequal system -- Jefferson and Hemings isn't one though
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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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But Stevens and his rumored "common-law wife" Lydia Smith weren't analogous to Jefferson as Hemings -- he never owned her as property
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