It's interesting Ivanka picked this example because the thing Jefferson's enemies were accusing him of -- fathering a child with a slave -- was absolutely something he did. 6 times as a matter of fact. Jefferson was bemoaning being called out for something he actually did.
Also Jefferson's daughter Martha never really knew how to treat her slave-born half-siblings. Martha had a complicated relationship with her dad. Sort of like Shiv's with Logan's on Succession.
Just another kismet relationship of one presidential-daughter with a deeply subservient relationship to a tyrant patriarch to another.
(I have no idea what specific thing Jefferson was moaning about to Martha in that letter, it might not have been the issue of her half-siblings, which she knew who fathered them. But his slave-born children were the most famous political scandal in Jefferson's presidential term.)
Because I love to give credit to the pop culture that helps me remember history it's @ERBofHistory why I remembered Jefferson had "six babies with your slave mama" (not just the one)
