Some slave owners who fathered children with their slave women did keep 
records.  My 3rd great grandfather, Lorenzo Dow Hill, was one who did.  
The information was on file at the court house in Lincoln County, West 
Virginia, and listed him specifically as the father of several slave 
children.  After the Emancipation Proclamation, there were still several 
Hills who were listed as black still living right beside him, or very 
near. 

And, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I remember reading years ago that 
white slave owners also bore children with their slaves for a monetary 
reason.  A common thought at the time was that a slave with some white 
blood made a better house servant, and therefore could be sold for more 
money.  Cold-hearted, to say the least, but it was common.

Take care,
Ruth

Quan Pruitt wrote:

>It is interesting that so much time has been spent on this subject that is over a hundred years old.  Mr. Jefferson's reputation/image is not tarnished but it seems that for some reason some people want to think so. He was a great man.
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>Finding proof in court records or journals on the relationship of a slave owner and his female slaves is near to impossible.  Very few owners acknowledge the children of slave mothers in writing.  Most acknowledge them on the farms but in public is another thing.  For that time period it was a fact of live that every slave woman/family had to live with.  Did they take care of those children?  Some did even after the civil and some didn't.  Did everyone in a town know? yes.  Did everyone in a town acknowledge it? Some did and some didn't depending on how powerful the owner was at that time.
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>Slave oral history is passed down to every generation.  The owners name, the fathers names, the name of the farm/plantation,  life on the farms, what they grew, the type of job they had, the migration of the owner and the auctions.  Stories of being set free then have the son renege on giving freedom to a slave.  Why because he could by law.
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>It is interesting to see history rewritten.  Owner generations denying that the family ever owned slaves. Even denying that father, granddaddy or even great granddaddy was half or could pass.  
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>You believe half of what your are told and half of what you read.  
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>So lets move on.  It was the era.  No one will win the debate.
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>Quan
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