Ms. Hemings' story also serves as a marked example of the "One Drop Rule" (Google: "hypodescent")
which served to assign slave status to offspring of enslaved women,
raped and impregnated by the white men who owned them. /2
Ms. Hemings' story also serves as a marked example of the "One Drop Rule" (Google: "hypodescent")
which served to assign slave status to offspring of enslaved women,
raped and impregnated by the white men who owned them. /2