Response Paper Two–Jefferson/Hemings

For the Jefferson response paper topics, you should use the resources (the video and the PDF containing background info on Jefferson and Hemings’ relationship as well as any other research you may do on your own). If you do choose to use an outside resource, make sure you are citing your outside source correctly and clearly and that you are enclosing any language that is not your own in quotation marks.  Your response should be a minimum of 2 full pages, MLA formatted.  As always, only PDF or MS Word files are accepted. Topic #3:  Read the handout detailing what is now known about Jefferson’s relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.  Now that DNA tests have proven that he had children with Hemings, and that he held those children in slavery for most of his life, the discrepancy between Jefferson’s belief that “all men are created equal” and the reality of his life as a plantation owner seem at odds with one another. Do you find this problematic or do you think it was a sign of the times? In what ways?  https://www.history.com/topics/slavery/sally-hemings  Here’s the link to the video, I also attached a pdf of the best resource to use.