Touring Monticello with Sally Hemings descendant
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- In June, Monticello opened an exhibit dedicated to the life of Sally Hemings - the enslaved woman who mothered six children with Thomas Jefferson.
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I am trying to figure out why she is speaking as if Thomas Jefferson being with her grandmother as a kid is something normal and special. The man was a rapist a child rapist at that.
Just Me you didn’t listen to what she said.
I agree I was trying to figure out why she was praising him
If things did not happen as they did, she would not be in existence.
It WAS normal for that time frame. MOST women had babies in their teens or were married in their teens. THAT was VERY NORMAL. That family is VERY VERY PROUD OF THEIR FAMILY. Why be mad at that family about that? Slavery was wrong but it was the way of the world at that time. Why are people commenting at how wrong it was and don’t understand that family’s pride? Jefferson did very important things. They are proud of him for it. Don’t try and question their pride......THAT IS WRONG.
He wasn't a rapist, what he did was wrong, but he was not a rapist.
What the hell is she talking about "We still got the job done." They didn't have no choice but to get the job done.
Yeah,and they still got the job done.though being oppressed.others would break. So credits go to them.
She speaking for white people that’s what this is about...paid to say that shit!
She made my stomach turn. Forced labor through kidnapping, violence, rape, and enslavement isn't a "partnership" where "we got the job done".
Yea I didnt like that at all.
nadiamommy exactly.
What’s weird is the black descendants they found tend to have his head shape or eyes and sometimes both.
Nose too!
That's not weird since they are related afterall
How is that weird when they are related 🙄
I am also a relative of Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson. I'm from Ohio. My ancestry dates to 1650s to Charles County, Mayland to a mixed Indigenous Indian and African Indentured servant... who he later married a white Welsh woman. I'm 59% African, 40% European and 1% Native American.
FAT Engineer...
I think you're closer to 58%/41%/2%.
Or 57%/41%/3%.
@@TheBatugan77 lol too funny. I am what I am and unfortunately, I can't change that whatsoever.
@Rodney Norman AMEN...
And 100% angry at every white person you see 👎
@@itsnotmeitsyou8271 girl.. what are u talking about?
Her voice is so calming. I could listen to her read a phone book.
He was part of stripping us of our origin but I do agree with her as a descendant to shed light on his disgusting nature
I guess you'd rather have been in East Juhunga with a saucer in your lip.
Hmmm, so slavery is an example of people "working together?" Talk about a positive spin...SMH
Right! A damn lie.
She didn't discount the oppression or brutality. Of course, that is underscoring the entire situation but what she is saying, I think, is to acknowledge what they accomplished despite that. America was built on their backs, but their work is still something to be proud of.
She was free in France, came back to the US with him. Asked him to never remarry as she approached death and he didn’t. That said it is extremely difficult, slave or not, to determine how voluntary a relationship was given the time period with any marriage.
There is little doubt that Jefferson was morally opposed to slavery however. He purposely drafted the Declaration of Independence to reflect an anti-slavery view, is quoted as saying that the wrath of G-d will come against the United States for the moral failings of slavery, and drafted the legislation that was later used in the emancipation.
Anti-Federalist your story is a little off. His wife Martha asked him not to remarry before she died. So he had Sally as his concubine. Sally did go to France with him when she was 15 and came back. If she ran away do you think the French would have let her stay when Jefferson was their guy? Don’t think so.
This viedo should have more then a million views it's apart of history
So sad 💔
Wait I’m confused if Jefferson is her 5th great grandfather and Sally’s brother is her 3rd great grandfather so how and why is the brother included in the grandfather line I’m confused
I was looking for this comment... I'm so confused too. Sally Hemming's would have been her Aunt if that was the case.
Spiritisalive1 thank you that goes to show how unprotected this poor girl was and they speak on her like she has had a grand life like her brother raped her her president raped her and she had kids by him I’m sure she looked her children but then you bury her in an unmarked grave and transform her bedroom into a bathroom because that’s how hidden she was from the word this makes me feel for her and angry at the people who ignore these facts just to paint a pretty picture for themselves and ignore the fact there was no love in that “relationship” and if there was it was def forced she had no choice
She is a descendant of Sally and Jefferson, but she is also a direct descendant of Sally's brother through a different line in her family
Michael Michael I don’t understand how does she have two grandfathers ? From sally Hemings line .
@@sheashea3365 she has 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 gg grandparents. Hence the further back she goes in time, the more ancestors she has. At some point she has an ancestor who is descended from Sally Hemmings, and at some point she has an ancestor who's descended from Sally's brother. If you had a great great great grandson, who married your brothers great great great granddaughter and they had a child, that child would be a direct descendant of you and your brother (hence your parents will be this child's ancestors through two separate lines of their family tree)
Just wonderful 😊
Okay serious question if Thomas Jefferson is her five times great grandpa and Peter is Sally's brother but it's also her three times great grandpa how does that work
@@bluejay9890 true didn't think of that, Newt Knight did something like that with his grandchildren from Rachel and his white wife's (I forgot her name) grandchildren
Inbreeding. Were one line married another line from a different generational level. 2 siblings can have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren that are all very different ages. For example the sister could have had a child when she was sixteen, then her brother has his 1st child at 40. Therefore the older cousin is an adult when the younger cousin is born. This said cousin could also have children that are older then the persons 1st cousin. This mainly happened years ago when families were large and people had children young especially daughters.
@@jamiemohan2049 There was an old popular song recorded in the 1950s called -----I'm my own Grandpa.
It is shameful what Jefferson did to that 15 year old, Sally Hemings
How could she called the place where Her Ancestors were "Raped, Imprisoned, & Murdered" A beautiful place that shit right there is beyond me!!!🤔🤯🤨
She was on the receiving end of money and comfort....
has all to do with perspective...
Murdered? Slaves held great value to owners. There is zero evidence to support Jefferson murdered his slaves.
Sally Hemings was beautiful.
I see a resemblance
Same
Well, you DID say they all look alike.
I was a lil shocked...she looks very much like Sally Hemings. Strong genes.
For those who dont know the history of this situation - Jefferson and Hemings had a long relationship lasting many years. Jefferson did not treat Hemings as a regular slave, but she did work in the house, and she had a decent home in which to raise her children. Jefferson DID NOT sell any of his children with Hemings, as would have been the norm at the time. He acknowledged his children and helped them gain freedom, money and a standing in the community. This is according to the Hemings decendants.
Try reading instead of assuming. Assuming doesnt help anyone. Jefferson was not a rapist, at least not where Sally Hemings was concerned.
There are no REAL images of Sally's. The paintings are just reimagined.
Her ancestors are also the Jefferson’s. Why disqualified that part, if she’s a descendant of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson?
Interesting I have a book in this.
What is the name of it?
I read most of the comments. Why so negative! She was being strong and showing how strong her family was, and through everything they worked and did not have a victim mentality. Why do some of you have to put people down, this is part of the problem. She showed the positive side.
There is no positive side to slavery. Idiot.
@@cococuree
No one said slavery was/ is good. Her point was and I agree, they helped build America and were a very important part of history. They built up the economy, fought in wars, brought over customs, etc... I spoke with several family members when I went to the Monticello and they were so proud of the "Black" history of the people and estate. I could feel the connection they had with the place.
coco/a/d Thank You! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 People of color of have a damn unfunny way of staring vileness in the eye and denying its existence.
Exactly. This is race baiting and victim mentality. They only wanna call you idiot and shut down your free thinking point of view so they can avoid having these types of hard conversations.
she didn't address the slavery aspect enough i'd imagine.
reparations and such aren't even mentioned...
My family Chesnuts same ...want to research their foundations nit from just one perspective
Well you gotta give it to president J dang he made some beautiful black children but the fact they were slaves does make him ah cold piece of work
Just can't wash that out.
whatever the hell you do in Monticello.
IF WE ASSUME THE DEBTS THE UNION GETS
a new line of credit, a financial diuretic,
how do you not get it?
"We plant seeds in the South. We create." Yeah, keep ranting. We know who's really doing the planting.
Like it or not this is a part of American history. I went to the Monticello and got to meet family members and they were all proud of their heritage. We (past, present, future generations) have built and will determine the future of America. We need to work together as one people to build America up as a world power/ leader. If we don't we will become a second world power and see how your life will be when another foreign power has control of what you do. Some of you have already have seen this first hand, when foreign investors move in and make property taxes so high you can't live in the same home or land your ancestors lived for centuries. Wake up Americans. If you don't want to be an American then please leave, some have left and went to other countries and loved it. Where is our national pride? It's not a bad thing that a few groups and media outlets make it out to be. We need to be united as one people.
They already do. We are in doubt to China for trillions of dollars. God forbid if they call in that loan.
uhhh....Like it or not America needs to stop thinking in Colonial Terms. We need to move pass being the "best" and just exist and enjoy life.
It's said that Jefferson promised his dying wife to never marry again
and he did not. But guess he was still real busy apparently.
She said “we still got the job done”
We should have burned that down and prevented the mess we’re in now.
Yes I’m not understanding this at all. They were forced to get the job done
I wanted to slap her just now!
🤦🏾♀️
The Jefferson in her talking
The fact they allow shoes in there blows my mind. Wood and shoes not a good idea wear shoe coverings for f sakes.
The floors are covered. Only small areas are visable. Those open areas do not have foot Traffic.
Yes you did and ancestors.
Is it just me or does she seem disconnected from what TJ actually did to black people ?
What does "actually did" mean.
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Gotta love those Long ones.......
She is right. We worked together. I am here. I am Thomas F Joyce. Same name as man who first introduced Tell-A-Vision at 1939 New York World's Fair. Broadcasting God's Kingdom. Tv. Declaration. I am Tom J. Sally my hero.
Romans 8:28
She's not saying Monticello right 🤦🏿♀️🤦🏿♀️🤦🏿♀️
Absolutely correct it should be read as Mon-tey-see-oh
We need to generate a massive peaceful but aggressive March for our record breaking check Jesus Christ 🥺
My ancestors arrived to this country front Great Britain France, and Holland several centuries ago; however, I have always regarded him as a greedy, brutal, deceitful, vile man who never had the character to be in government. He directed the violent, brutal mistreatment of children forced to work in the nail factory and engaged in vicious slander against King George III, the monarch of Great Britain.
🙋🏽♀️ excuse me I know shes not Glorifying Thomas Jefferson in any way this man was pure evil no matter the "influence" he had on the world 🤦🏽♀️ let the truth Be the truth
any slaver is still a slaver and needs to not be listened too much after that fact is known.
Sally Hemmimgs to Thomas Jefferson was her 5x great grandfather - Peter Hemmings Brother to Sally Hemmings was her 3x grandfather (wouldnt that make Peter Hemmings her 3x Great uncle ? 🤔🤔)
Wouldn't be 4× great uncle
Hemings is with one m not two.
This is NOT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE JUST BECAUSE YOU CLAIM YOUR HIS 19TH GREAT GRANDCHILD DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS PLACE IS GOOD /PLEASANT. THIS PLACE HAD SAD/EVIL/BITTER /DEADLY/ LIFELESS SOULS HERE. DO NOT BROADCAST SADNESS AND UNFORTUNATELY EVIL. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN AND MADE INTO A GARDEN WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. WHO WANTS TO REMEMBER THOSE MEMORIES
that “mmhh” “right” “yea” sends me
Even though we were suppressed, they were treated brutally. we still got the Job done?? Huh?? I can't get with that thinking, sis. I can't it's almost like you're excusing the behavior of your savage grandfather
You cant be related to TJ and be a child of Peter Hemings also.
Unless peter had no kids, then cousins where with cousins I guess
I need MANY people confirming she’s a descendant and paper work.
They were able to confirm it through DNA.
Relax ....most blks here in America have white dna. Nothing new
O I am interested inpp my husband's mother is related to Thomas Jefferson and Sally hemmings as well this because my husband's mother
In the eighties it was normal to married at age 12 ; in fact if you were in your twenties you were considered an old maid; A lot of assumptions are being made that are probably untrue.
They were never married.
Not in the 80's. No ma'am
Maybe the late 50 or 60's
you mean the 1880? i mean huh?
I certainly wouldn't feel good about this i would not claim this situation. If i was a descendant. And we all blacks have this shame on us.this mad man took her love. So sad.she had no choice in this.
Walter Vaught why is the shame on the enslaved and not the enslaver. You sound like a disgusting idiot
@@nameless592 a idiot is one that calls people idiot
Everyone, _everyone,_ is the descendant of a slave and a slaveowner, we don't need to be ashamed of it, it is a part of our common history. We can celebrate today that we live in a better society our ancestors were not afforded, while acknowledging what they went through.
Sally Hemings per her portatrit is a very attractive woman.
From what I've read there was never a portrait done of her.
AMAZING third president Thomas Jefferson......loved his lady and his children from Sally. I'm totally educated by this man history, his love his family his children.
Equally if not more amazing is our third First Lady Sally aka Sarah Hemings. Just as Jefferson and his daughter Martha junior were intellectual forces of nature to be reckoned with, Sally's mental powers and abilities were practically supernatural. The way Sally protected her beloved niece from others on their way to France was brilliantly classic. Like a mother bird protecting her young from possible predators she fluttered her wings and made out like she was the more desperate child in need. People today still don't see that behavior of Sally for what it actually was... a gifted naturalist's maternal defense of the young in her charge.
.... Amazing? So you're racist.
He no different from any other plantation owner rapist
Amazing? Please, do you really think it was consensual? Do you think enslaved women had a choice? Rapists, plain and simple
Madison Hemings, Sally's son with Thomas Jefferson, in his book, wrote that Thomas Jefferson only loved his white children.
He ignored his children with Sally.
That is very sad.
Theres no proof..circumstantial and could be his brother who fathered them
Jefferson passed laws prohibiting slavery, his slaves were family, he educated them, they had jobs like by today's standards, he saved them from brutal slave traders. and further advocated against slavery.
I'm the great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson I, who is the Grandfather of President Jefferson. Jefferson I owned all of the lands that were inherited. From what I've read on the DNA results are that it proved they are Jeffersons, but it did not prove it was President Jefferson's line, it could be his Brother.
Martha Jefferson Goode and Colonel Bennett Goode are my Grandparents. We welcome all cousins in this lineage and so glad that we have them all.
Many people bring up the story of Jefferson and Sally Hemmings as an example of hypocrisy, but they know little of history and less about women. Hemmings was, by all contemporary accounts, a stunningly beautiful woman who could easily pass for white. With those attributes, no woman was going to link her future with a field hand. When Jefferson was ambassador to France he requested that one of his slaves be sent to France to serve him. Hemmings cunningly maneuvered her way into this job, knowing she would be living far away with a wealthy man in his prime and her natural beauty would be impossible to resist. The narrative of the evil slave master forcing himself on a woman is totally false, and was actually quite the opposite. In France, slavery had already been outlawed, so the moment Hemmings stepped off the boat she was a free woman and could have simply found a place among the black population of Paris. However she chose the life of high society and the company of a wealthy man, so the relationship was not master and slave, but consensual between 2 free adults. When Jefferson returned to America, Hemmings did not have to accompany him, as she was a free woman, but she chose life with him under American law as being preferable to life in France. Back in America they continued the relationship and she bore at least 4 of his children. People ask why she remained a slave, but in the context of the times, many powerful men had extramarital relationships and having one with a slave was not uncommon, but had Jefferson given her freedom, then the morality of the day would not have allowed her to remain in his household. Therefore it is most likely that she agreed to remain a technical slave in order to remain with him. It is well known that his will clearly freed her and her children on his death.
lol you got stories to tell.... too bad they lift up whitey and keep on the story of Manifest Destiny.
Fact: Jefferson . SLAVER : FULL STOP.
read line two again. That's all ya need to know.
Exactly. Plus, it's pathetic that in videos like this, the only thing that matters about Jefferson, the only thing anyone knows, is that he slept with Sally Hemmings. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the first people in the history of the world to take human right seriously, at all. The way this video is written, she makes it sounds like the slaves helped write the Declaration. They didn't.
I expected Sally Heming’s descendents to be white as her children after being freed all entered white society and being 75% European or so we’re all white passing.
One of Sally Hemings children... I believe Madison Hemings decided to stay in black society. So maybe she’s a descendant from him
ItsmeSimi thank you for sharing.
See the Oprah Winfrey show on here (from circa 1998). She has a few of Jefferson and Hemings white descendants on.
@@itsmesimi779 Yes, I think one of them (maybe more?) stayed in black society so he could be near the family. The others moved to different states and married white people. So some of the Jefferson/Hemings descendants today are almost entirely white and others are mixed race/consider themselves black.