Anonymous wrote:Maybe she used her charms on him...she may have gotten to sleep in his bad and not work.....like a sahm.
Anonymous wrote:He didn't just simply remarry another white because he was already in love. It was taboo at the time, his affinity for a black woman, but that doesn't mean it wasn't sincere. Goes to show despite whatever cultural traditions and ethical practices society puts in place to determine who can/should be with whom, love supersedes all policies and protocol.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think it is ridiculous to characterize this as a romance. It might have been, but it is far more likely that it was not.
She was a teenager who looked like his wife and was his property. That isn't dating.
Likely isn't actually.
Probably isn't definitely.
Possibly isn't precisely.
Reasonably isn't really.
Conceivably isn't conclusively.
Presumably isn't positively..
Are you getting any of this?
Not the poster you quoted and what the ever-loving fuck are you going on about?
Anonymous wrote:Jefferson didn't remarry cause white broads are a headache - period.
Anonymous wrote:There are many jealous white women on this board.
It seems as if this thread really touched a sore spot
Anonymous wrote:In the context of slavery, why on earth would you refer to this as a romantic relationship? And she was a teenager when this began. Yuck.
That said, it is believed that Sally was his wife's half sister, and that she bore a resemblance to his late wife.
Anonymous wrote:Didn't he promise his wife she would never remarry?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it have to be one or the other? Yes I could have been legal rape, but who's to say she wouldn't have consented if she even had that choice?
ugh, the point is that she didn't have a choice- we don't get to live in some magical world where slavery and the owning of people might not have been so bad - It was and constructing or supposing this "romance" involving a woman who had no choice is just re-writing history to make you feel better, it is gross.
Not rewriting history or trying to debate it. Just thinking of all the possibilities of what could have been... the human behavior element. There's no denying she had no rights and what happened was wrong but that was times she was living in.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it have to be one or the other? Yes I could have been legal rape, but who's to say she wouldn't have consented if she even had that choice?
ugh, the point is that she didn't have a choice- we don't get to live in some magical world where slavery and the owning of people might not have been so bad - It was and constructing or supposing this "romance" involving a woman who had no choice is just re-writing history to make you feel better, it is gross.