HIST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James T. Callender, Martha Jefferson, Sally Hemings
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How could a country founded on freedom coninue to pracice slavery. All men created equal - many men had their poliical, social, and economical rights expanded. American indians - many were not part of the united states at this point. Colonies were a land of opportunity for poor of europe. Prosperity and land-holding depends on taking land from american indians. Published a story alleging that the president (thomas jeferson) had a slave mistress (sally hemmings) Martha wayles (dies in 1782) and sally hemings are half sisters. Jeferson goes to paris and calls for sally hemings (15 at the ime) to be a maid for his daughters. Soon ater, sally hemings starts having children who all had lighter complexion o. Hoped that jeferson would appt him to be postmaster of virginia even though he o o o o o o helped jeferson to be elected. Callender threatened to publish damaging stories about jeferson.
