Dehumanizing stereotypes have existed in American culture from the very beginning. Centuries later, and racism remains the default justification for discrimination and brutality.
Reblog everytime someone brings up Sally. Let them know he never thought of her or their own as human.
It’s scary the amount of times I’ve read historians romanticize their relationship, describing it as mysterious, secret romantics affair.
Sally was literally a slave and rape victim. Fuck these white historians for sugarcoating all the atrocities Thomas Jefferson committed and calling Sally “Jefferson’s mistress”.