1. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
... resembled Martha because Sally and Martha shared the same father, which made them half sisters. Jefferson missed his wife and loved her so much that he could have wanted that love from someone who looked like and was related to his beautiful wife. Annette Gordon-Reed also believed that since Sally and Martha looked so much a like and Jefferson was yearning ... for love. This love could have lead Jefferson to have an affair with Sally well after his wife's death. In September 1802, political journalist James T. Callender, a disappointed office-seeker who had once been ... century, some ...
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