{"id":52608,"date":"2017-03-19T01:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T01:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52608"},"modified":"2017-03-19T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T01:34:40","slug":"sally-hemings-thomas-jefferson-and-the-normalization-of-slave-rape-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52608","title":{"rendered":"Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, And The Normalization of Slave Rape Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/sally-hemings-thomas-jefferson-and-the-normalization-of-slave-rape-narratives\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, And The Normalization of Slave Rape Narratives<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">black youth project<\/a><br \/>\n2017-02-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-adetiba-82873779\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elizabeth Adetiba<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/sally-hemings-thomas-jefferson-and-the-normalization-of-slave-rape-narratives\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/03_thomas_jefferson-e1487821679734.jpeg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not the same person now as I was when I was 14\u2014and thank God for that. I was remarkably naive and unbearably insecure, and stuck in an environment that did nothing but exacerbate those complex internal struggles that are so typical of adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my outrage upon being continuously confronted with articles that insist on describing the affairs between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/05\/books\/review\/Foner-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">fourteen year-old<\/a> enslaved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Hemings\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Hemings<\/a> (simultaneously his slave and wife\u2019s half-sister) as a \u2018relationship.\u2019 I cannot fathom, at fourteen, being denied the liberty to reject the sexual advances of a 44 year-old man (and not just any man, but a man who would become the President of the United States) only to have historians and writers skip over the imbalanced power dynamics and categorize it as a \u2018relationship.\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/sally-hemings-thomas-jefferson-and-the-normalization-of-slave-rape-narratives\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So imagine my outrage upon being continuously confronted with articles that insist on describing the affairs between Thomas Jefferson and a fourteen year-old enslaved Sally Hemings (simultaneously his slave and wife\u2019s half-sister) as a \u2018relationship.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1196,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[22124,26541,918,477],"class_list":["post-52608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-black-youth-project","tag-elizabeth-adetiba","tag-sally-hemings","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52608","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=52608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52609,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52608\/revisions\/52609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}