It doesn't matter. He owned her. He could've done anything with her. He could've killed her and there was not a law in the country that protected her and that is the more important dynamic.

Ken Burns discussing his 1997 film Thomas Jefferson and whether descendents of Sally Hemmings are in fact descended from Thomas Jefferson.

According to more recent DNA evidence, they were. Further, Sally Hemmings was in fact a half-sister of Thomas Jefferson's deceased wife. That is to say Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law also had his way with the help. Scratch that, not help, slave.

My phone has a MySpace link on it. Seriously. MySpace. Too young to remember MySpace? It was a social networking website similar to Facebook but much worse. It was somehow worse than Facebook. Which reminds me Facebook used to be okay before their stock went public and they became an ad-filled, money making machine that turned everybody off. But yeah I have an old phone. Mostly because I don't want and can't use a touchscreen device without heavy levels of frustration.

I bought a bed about three years ago. It's really nice, memory foam and it has those drawers underneath for storing your blankets, sweatshirts, off-season clothing. It's the first bed I ever bought. First time since living with my parents, scratch that, since living in a dorm that I've slept on a real bed. That is, not a mattress and box spring on the floor.  No one has ever slept there but me.