Those of you who haven't bonfired your copy of "Sally Hemings & Thomas
Jefferson," edited by Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, will find there an essay
by Philip D. Morgan in which he carefully analyzes the information in the
Wythe case and says that "the preponderance of evidence" indicates that
Wythe did NOT have a relationship with Lydia Broadnax (pp. 55ff). I do not
know if more recent work has been done on Wythe/Broadnax.

Henry Wiencek

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:18:10 -0500, Ray Bonis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Lydia Broadnax (Wythe's slave
>and most likely his lover) was an African American and was therefore
>prevented from testifying because of the color of  her skin. 

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