{"id":46590,"date":"2016-04-12T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46590"},"modified":"2016-04-12T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T22:26:23","slug":"what-jefferson-did-to-hemings-was-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46590","title":{"rendered":"What Jefferson did to Hemings was rape."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By all accounts, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">[Thomas] Jefferson\u2019s<\/a> sexual relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46549\" target=\"_blank\">[Sally] Hemings<\/a> spanned several decades, beginning when Hemings was a teenager and Jefferson was in his 40s. It was not, in any sense of the word, consensual: Hemings was a child, and Jefferson literally owned her; she was not in any position to give or withhold consent. What Jefferson did to Hemings was rape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/constancegrady\" target=\"_blank\">Constance Grady<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46562\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson spent years raping his slave Sally Hemings. A new novel treats their relationship as a love story.<\/a>\u201d <em>Vox<\/em>, April 8, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/4\/8\/11389556\/thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-book\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/4\/8\/11389556\/thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts, [Thomas] Jefferson\u2019s sexual relationship with [Sally] Hemings spanned several decades, beginning when Hemings was a teenager and Jefferson was in his 40s. It was not, in any sense of the word, consensual: Hemings was a child, and Jefferson literally owned her; she was not in any position to give or withhold consent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23503,918,477,18116],"class_list":["post-46590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-constance-grady","tag-sally-hemings","tag-thomas-jefferson","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46591,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590\/revisions\/46591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}