Who was Thomas Jefferson's wife and was she a slave?

Answer 1

As Marriage assumes the equality of the spouses, technically a marriage between a Free Man and a Slave woman- well it would not go. This is true in all major religious bodies, certainly in Christian circles. Jefferson had several Black Mistresses- who were emancipated, not slave women, AFTER his wife died- and she passed on long before he became President. Miss Hanson ( sounds Scandinavian< was the best known). A man in Jefferson"s position could emanicpate people by Fiat ( official order) akin to the presidential power of Pardon. President Ford in one of his first official acts, Pardoned Richard Nixon even though he had never been formally accused of a crime. Close the Emergency doors last man out of the- err, Canal.