WIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON // #3

  • First Lady of Virginia, but died twenty years before Jefferson’s presidency

  • Jefferson was her second husband

  • She made him promise not to remarry (maybe because she didn’t want her kids raised by a stepmom, like she was?)

  • Instead, he began carrying on with her half-sister, Sally Hemmings

  • And the “carrying on” likely wasn’t consentual

Martha Jefferson was a widow
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