Yes, but how do we know that Jefferson didn't have a relationship with Lydia Broadnax that resulted in the birth of a son named Michael Brown, a 16-year-old mulatto boy who lived in the Wythe house, and that it was Jefferson who tried to kill them all to cover it up so his slave wife Sally Hemings wouldn't find out?




 





J South




 





 



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From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>

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Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 4:50 pm

Subject: Re: On Slaves and Jefferson and George Wythe













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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