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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Note the reasons ppl thought Stevens and Smith had a relationship -- he treated her "disturbingly" like an equal -- don't apply to Jefferson
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Jefferson had every opportunity to legally free Hemings if he really wanted to and never did -- that would've been the bare minimum
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Somewhere between Stevens and Jefferson is the case of Richard Mentor Johnson, who openly treated one of his slaves as his common law wife
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Though he never freed her, he apparently let her run his plantation. Their two daughters were free & both married white men.
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