Amazon.com: The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved...
Here's another major example....
Benjamin Franklin: Beloved Founding Father... and Womanizer?
Benjamin Franklin may have been the dexterous diplomat who helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but he apparently was dexterous in another area: the ladies department.
Even Monticello finally gave up on the whole Jefferson thing about Sally Hemmings...anyone who thinks the founders were saints has an abysmally woefully ignorant view of history...it just took over two centuries for it all to finally start to be admitted, obv....
Sally Hemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous—and least known—African American women in U.S. history. For more than 200 years, her name has been linked to Thomas Jefferson as his “concubine,” obscuring the facts of her life and her identity. Scroll down to learn more about this intriguing American.
He and Martha totally tormented this porr woman, quite clearly, showing that even the really great can have their really dark side, ya know?
Oney "Ona" Judge (c.1773 – February 25, 1848), known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was an enslaved woman owned by Martha Washington who worked on George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia.[1] Beginning in 1789, she worked as a lady's maid to First Lady Martha Washington in the presidential households in New York City and Philadelphia.