Something I pondered this weekend. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are endlessly fascinating Founders of the US. John Q Adams carries on his father’s work. What’s the story with Thomas Jefferson’s next kids? You never read about them. What did they do? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Something I pondered this weekend. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are endlessly fascinating Founders of the US. John Q Adams carries on his father’s work. What’s the story with Thomas Jefferson’s next kids? You never read about them. What did they do?

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Thomas Jefferson had several children. It isn't surprising that you would have read little of them, as I discuss here, two of them quite consciously separated themselves from their previous identities in order to make new lives for themselves and pass in white society.