Marriage and Family
Although slave marriages were not recognized by Virginia law, John married Priscilla, another slave at Monticello, and had a lifelong partnership with her. They reared a family. She served as nurse to Jefferson's grandchildren when they were living there.
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“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
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“It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)