Early Life
Mary was born to Elizabeth Hemings, also called Betty, a mulatto slave. She was the daughter of an enslaved African, and John Hemings, an English sea captain. Mary's father is believed to be a slave man.
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“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)