"The central question of [Thomas] Bradshaw's play - whether Sally Hemings, who as Jefferson's slave was his legal property, could have loved her master, who fathered six of her children - has made Thomas and Sally the locus of a veritable firestorm of public protest and criticism. With that backlash have arisen questions of how sexual assault and slavery history can and should be portrayed onstage."
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