Hidden Room of Thomas Jefferson's Mansion Solves 200 Year Old Mystery
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Thomas Jefferson is often heralded as a wise and moral man who helped lay the foundations for American democracy. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States. We have memorials dedicated to him in the nation’s capitol, and his home in Virginia is a popular tourist destination. During some maintenance construction, workers came across a secret room. The room itself was one thing, but its location in the house was…peculiar, and raised some questions. The discovery reopened a controversy that had been swirling around the president’s legacy for over 200 years.
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Hidden Room of Thomas Jefferson's Mansion Solves 200 Year Old Mystery
Get your damn facts straight!!!!!!!!!!!
The woman in the painting shown at 6:23 is NOT that of Jeffersons wife Martha. It is a painting of his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph.
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@@Duknow-Media Well then correct it!
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I didnt get any,not one
No window? Sure sounds like she really wanted to be there.
That part
Given the times , a private room with an over was living in luxury...even without windows
I find it soo annoying that this man doesn’t get right to the point
They're trying to get to that 10 min mark to get that ad sense money. They gotta get paid.
Victor Angel Lopez Torres he never does. The minute I hear that voice, cluck I am gone. Uses wrong photos from other issues too.
@@katehobbs2008 geeky, for sure. Fingernails on a Chalkboard, to the Max, IMHO.
Yeah me too but he can’t he doesn’t have the concrete proof and if he would have said it he could have been sued for slander. What I find interesting is that so called group that stated that TJ wasn’t the father of Miss SH children but it was his brother that fathered her children. The narrator failed to mention that at the time SH descendants was suing the Jefferson folks for what is to be legally theirs. That’s why the group was trying to steer the dna 🧬 findings toward his brother so SH descendants wouldn’t have a legal claim to TJ’s estate. To much greed and hate in people’s heart and more than ever these last days of wicked mankind.
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Her sister Mary Hemings was also a slave who was purchased by a white merchant from Charlottesville named Thomas Bell, their story is actually a better one because they were genuinely in love, but their story is also sad. Thomas Bell was able to purchase her from Jefferson and he granted her freedom. Mary actually pleaded with Jefferson to let Bell purchase her and told Jefferson that Bell was her husband (it is presumed they had a secret ceremony with probably just the minister and a witness). They lived together as common law husband and wife because legally they were not allowed to marry because Mary was born a slave, but he made every attempt to make sure she was recognized as his wife, despite disapproval from society. They had 2 children together but Mary had 4 other children born as slaves before she met Thomas Bell. Thomas Bell tried to purchase all of Mary’s children (at least one believed to be by Thomas Jefferson) to free them so they could live together as one family, unfortunately, some of Thomas Jefferson’s relatives owned Mary’s children and would not let Thomas Bell purchase them because quite frankly they were horrible people. Thomas Bell formally adopted the 4 children and despite great public scandal for copulating with a slave he formally acknowledged they were his, even though they were not. When Thomas Bell died he left his estate to Mary and acknowledged that she was a free woman so the administrators could give her Bell’s great wealth, which included several fine houses, he also made arrangements with neighbors before he died to make sure Mary was treated as a free woman after he died and to make sure she was given everything in the will that was due to her, he also left portions of his wealth to their 2 children plus Mary’s other children who were never sold to him. Mary continued to visit her enslaved children but Jefferson’s daughter and sister would never allow Mary to purchase them despite her great wealth. In the end it was Thomas Bell’s dream that he and Mary and their 2 children, plus Mary’s 4 other children would live together as a family, which despite race is actually very admirable for any man to want to adopt his lover’s 4 children, but he and Mary were denied this dream because of the Jefferson family’s refusal to let Thomas Bell purchase the children. Fortunately their children were eventually able to purchase some of Mary’s other children and grandchildren , but around 20 years after Bell’s death. When Bell was alive he never stopped trying to get Mary’s other children out of slavery and he and Mary would try to lessen their burden by sending them money, presents, and clothes, which the Jefferson’s allowed. And they would visit them regularly. Eventually the Jefferson’s went into bankruptcy in the 1830s and Thomas’ daughter was able to buy many of her half siblings, their spouses, and their children since they were put up for sale and she and her husband took care of them, emancipation would eventually free all of them 30 years later.
Baron De La Fuente y Fernandez ,
Very informative! Thank you....
How CRUEL of the Jeffersons to not let Mary purchase her children!
Heartbreaking
They should make a movie about bell and hemings!
Gentle Note: The photos of talented actress Thandie Newton, playing Sally Hemmings in the movie "Jefferson in Paris," are used in the video. I enjoyed the video, just wanted to mention that.
Thank you for that, cause I’m like wait...were photos around just then? Maybe a few decades after...but not just then when Sally and Tom were alive.
The painting is his daughter. Not Sally.
An extra 10 minutes and 22 seconds to say what could have been done in 7 minutes. Way to milk that ad revenue for all its worth.
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The alleged photographs of Sally Hemmings cannot be real since she died in 1835. Photography was just being invented and the earliest surviving portrait of that time is from 1839, four years later. By 1835, Hemmings was 62 years old and not the young woman shown in this video.
Didn't someone paint that pic of her??
That picture is a modern actress who is fair skinned. Not sally
@@ro992 The painting is his DAUGHTER. Not Sally.
They know he's all of her children father...
Thomas Jefferson is my 8th cousin through his mother. I've always thought that Jefferson loved Sally and vice versa. She could have left and never did. He could have married or dated another white woman after his wife died but he was only with Sally.
A slave has no choice when entering in a relationship with a master....
Exactly...he was a rapist.
k21im I’ll debate that he wasn’t
@@drsin6856 I mean no one was there to know for sure... I doubt it came down to physical violence, but like statutory rape, there is a power differential, and consent is hard to give when you are considered property and don't have any viable alternatives. I mean it would be awfully coincidental if she fell in love with a guy 25 years older than her who also happened to own her. It's just the logical conclusion.
Most didn't ..but are you saying everyone with 100 percent certainty? That's impressive. Where is your empirical evidence? Are you familiar with something called human psychology?
@@brett6905 It's the conclusion that many people have come to, but logical? Not really. The dictionary defines "logic" as "reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity". How is it valid to assume someone guilty without a shred of proof?
I heard this guys voice and I already knew from past experiences this would be some rambling. Then I looked at the time of over 17 minutes and I'm not going to waste my time.
God just get to the point. The nonsense talk is killing me
Well, aren’t u a prime example of an American... Looking to believe something with no type of proof or background... or to deny something without knowing the facts... 🤦🏽♂️
@@YFStunnah say what?
@@YFStunnah I think u responded to wrong post
It took 4 minutes to get started then it was fabulous!
@@YFStunnah How do you know the individual is American?
Jefferson did not ever grant Sally Hemings her freedom. He did, however, grant their children their freedom. Can we please get the facts straight?
Please see the posters reply to my comment about this "fact" that he stated - that is NOT a fact.
Don't know what 'posters' you're talking about. I've read virtually every book out there on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; I believe my facts are correct.
True
@@michaelhoerig5920 - so, should history teachers be painting Jefferson as more of a scumbag than a hero? He sounds like a 21st century hypocrite.
I think its a little unfair to place our current morals on someone who lived 200 years ago. The times were completely different, live styles were more harsh. Who's to say that in 200 years we will be looked down on in disgust for things we are allowing in our current lives. I for one would hope that the smart people will see the truth and understand. Slavery is not a color issue, it's always been a human issue. Long before African's were made slaves to the Europeans, Native Americans were doing the same with their own, just different tribe. The English were doing it to the Irish and Scots. Aztec's were doing it to everyone who wasn't Aztec!
The recent discovery of the room is completely unrelated to the long-known children with Sally. And referring to a slave as the owner's "lover" is unforgiveable.
There is no proof of Jefferson fathering children with any slaves. Do some research, please.
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For the record there are no known photographs or portraits of Sally Hemings.
This is probably one of the reasons why Jefferson was so conflicted about the institution of slavery.
The fact that he owned slaves is proof of where he stood on the matter. 😒
@@tiffanyhooker5734Back then, anyone who could afford a slave owned at least one. The first slave owner in America was a black man and his wife. Google it. Quite interesting.
15:12 "These details have long been swept under the rug.." Yet widely known for 30+ years and written about for over 100 years. SMH
Even written about at the time: in the newspapers.
Sally Hemings was also the half sister of Jefferson's wife and was said to have a similar appearance.
Much younger and she came to Mrs. Jefferson every time she rang her silver bell. After she died they gave the bell to Sally.
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The painting they show is not Sally. It's his eldest daughter.
Rumors? Everyone knows that he traveled with Sally and that he had children with her. By the way, one of her decendents looks just like her.
Sally also was the half sister of Jeffersons wife, Martha. Fathered by Martha's father, with a slave, Betty Hemmings.
There are no known pictures of her.
That's not any real photos of her so we wouldn't know how she looked.
All of her descendants look like her
A few years ago DNA tests proved that Jefferson WAS the father of her children.
According to other reports, Sally and her brother, the chef, were taken to France. Her brother wanted to stay in France, but Jefferson begged Sally to come back with him. Sally asked that she and her children would be freed after he died. Sally's brother came back with Sally and Jefferson.
I guess she did what she had to do to survive. She sounds like a very strong woman who loved her children. Right or wrong, things could have been so much worse back then.
@@Joy-TheLazyCatLady I hope it didn't sound like I was condemning Sally. I was just adding to this video what I have read and other documentaries I've watched stated.
I agree with your opinion.
@@egyptnylia Sally does sound like a strong woman who loved her kids bad thing is what does it say about Thomas Jefferson has one of America's founding fathers but truthfully we have no idea everything that Washington did or Jefferson or Adams or Franklin truthfully we don't know I want to know but I just love history lol
Yes! James hemmings. I just watched a story about the history of culinary arts and learned about him. Very cool
Read "The Hemingses" by the historian Annette Gordon Reed. Very insightful and very well written.
My family and I lived in a home that was a part of the underground railroad. There was a hidden room were the slaves hid until the next stop to freedom? My kids would sit in there and I would give them a history lesson.
T"he remaining slaves were sold"....So we hear that and don't realise the horror of that statement? Families separated. People forceably moved against their will. Against their will. He loved Sally Hemmings I read in the comments. Really, she was 14 years old without any way of saying no. Thats not love.
Actually she had a way to say no. When he started to fall in love with her, they were in France where slavery was not allowed. He had no right to take her back to the States. And what did she choose to do? Go back
I thank everyone for reading my comment and replying. I agree of course that slavery was widely practiced all through history. And to the person who asked if I read a book, oh yes I ve many books. And one thing I read is that insulting someone is a poor way to start a dialog.
What I was commenting on was recent history in this country by people quoted as founders of freedom in the US. For me, its important to face the effects of these broad repeated messages which end up being 'truths'. If we are for freedom and choice, surely we can't carve it out more for some, and less for others and that includes today.
@@makaelaischillin I;m so sorry I can't agree. She was raised in slavery. Could I ask you what choices would she have faced in France. as a young women of that time. ? So many women lived horrific lives on the margin with a man of means to protect them on any level.
@@722dabba she could have lived her life in France at the time. She even had side jobs when she was there to make money. It was not unheard of for young girls of thirteen, marrying in that time period. She absolutely knew that staying with Jefferson, her child she was pregnant with, when leaving France, would be taken care of. Sally was treated as family in the household. After all, she was the half sister of his dead wife.
@@fearlessvic7948 Rxactly.
Although the video has way too many ads, in some ways it was more honest than other short documentaries. I’ve often wondered why people never talk about slave laws when discussing slavery. It provides a lot of context when studying the writings of the American founders.
Laws were passed before the American founding that placed a heavy economic burden on slave owners, which discouraged them from releasing slaves. A slave could not be freed unless the slave owner guaranteed a security bond for the education, livelihood, and support of the freed slave in order to ensure that the former slave would not become a burden to the community or to the society. Not only did such laws place extreme economic hardships on any slave owner who tried to free his slaves but they also provided stiff penalties for any slave owner who attempted to free slaves without abiding by these laws.
In 1782, Virginia began to move in a new direction (for a short time) by passing a very liberal manumission law. As a result, “this restraint on the power of the master to emancipate his slave was removed, and since that time the master may emancipate by his last will or deed.”(It was because of this law that George Washington was able to free his slaves in his last will and testament in 1799.) In 1806, unfortunately, the Virginia Legislature repealed much of that law, and it became more difficult to emancipate slaves in a last will and testament:
It shall be lawful for any person, by his or her last will and testament, or by any other instrument in writing under his or her hand and seal . . . to emancipate and set free his or her slaves . . . Provided, also, that all slaves so emancipated, not being . . . of sound mind and body, or being above the age of 45 years, or being males under the age of 21, or females under the age of 18 years, shall respectively be supported and maintained by the person so liberating them, or by his or her estate. (emphasis added).
Furthermore, recall that Virginia law did not recognize slave families. Therefore, if a slave was freed, the law made it almost impossible for him to remain near his spouse, children, or his family members who had not been freed, for the law required that a freed slave promptly depart the state or else reenter slavery: “If any slave hereafter emancipated shall remain within this Commonwealth more than 12 months after his or her right to freedom shall have accrued, he or she shall forfeit all such right and may be apprehended and sold.”
It was under difficult laws like these-under laws even more restrictive than those Washington had faced-that Jefferson was required to operate. Nevertheless, as a slave owner (he, like Washington, had inherited slaves), Jefferson maintained a consistent public opposition to slavery and assiduously labored to end slavery both in his state and in the nation. Jefferson’s efforts to end slavery were manifested years before the American Revolution. As he explained:
In 1769, I became a member of the legislature by the choice of the county in which I live [Albemarle County, Virginia], and so continued until it was closed by the Revolution. I made one effort in that body for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, which was rejected: and indeed, during the regal [crown] government, nothing [like this] could expect success.
Following America’s separation from Great Britain in 1776, individual states, for the first time in America’s history, were finally able to begin abolishing slavery. For example, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1780, Connecticut and Rhode Island did so in 1784, Vermont in 1786, New Hampshire in 1792, New York in 1799, New Jersey in 1804, etc.
Significantly, Thomas Jefferson helped end slavery in several states by his leadership on the Declaration of Independence, and he was also behind the first attempt to ban slavery in new territories. Unfortunately, that proposal fell one vote short of passage. 3 years prior to that proposal, Jefferson had made known his feelings against slavery in his book, “Notes on the State of Virginia” (1781). That work, circulated widely across the nation.
Nearly 25 years later, Jefferson bemoaned that ending slavery had been a task even more difficult than he had imagined. In 1805, he lamented: “I have long since given up the expectation of any early provision for the extinguishment of slavery among us. [While] there are many virtuous men who would make any sacrifices to affect it, many equally virtuous persuade themselves either that the thing is not wrong or that it cannot be remedied.”
Jefferson eventually recognized that slavery probably would never be ended during his lifetime. However, this did not keep him from continually encouraging others in their efforts to end slavery. Just weeks before his death, Jefferson reiterated: “On the question of the lawfulness of slavery, that is of the right of one man to appropriate to himself the faculties of another without his consent, I certainly retain my early opinions.”
Since the state laws on slavery had significantly stiffened between the death of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson 27 years later, as Jefferson had observed in 1814, “the laws do not permit us to turn them loose” Jefferson was unable to do what Washington had done in freeing his slaves. However, Jefferson had gone well above and beyond other slave owners in that era in that he actually paid his slaves for their work. Additionally, he paid them for extra tasks they performed outside their normal working hours and even offered a revolutionary profit sharing plan for products they helped produce.
While today both Washington and Jefferson are roundly condemned for owning slaves, it is nevertheless true that they both laid the first seeds for the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Significantly it was the efforts of both Washington and Jefferson, and especially the documents which Jefferson had written, that were so heavily relied on by later abolitionists such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln in their efforts to end slavery. For example, Lincoln invoked Jefferson to condemn the Kansas-Nebraska Act permitting territories that allowed slavery to become states in the Union.
While it is difficult for today’s critics of Washington and Jefferson to understand the culture of America 2 centuries ago, it is nevertheless true that both Washington and Jefferson were influential in slowly turning that culture in a direction which-generations later-eventually secured equal civil rights for all Americans, regardless of their color.
Very informative! Things are often not as simple as they seem at first glance. I’ve often thought there must be a lot more to the story than the simple criticism that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. I’m amazed that Jefferson got by with compensating his slaves. I’m sure slaveowners who wanted to perpetuate slavery put a lot of pressure on slaveowners who wanted to treat their slaves right and also to abolish slavery.
They still can't admit that they have black in the family DNA doesn't lie
I saw pictures where there was a huge reunion sometime ago.
Who says they can't admit it? They have admitted it.
Them his children...They still want to hide the truth.
Facts
I can't believe I just heard the phrase "whether the affair was consensual is still hotly debated" in 2020.
Nor can I, since whether the "affair" ever took place has never been proven.
CJ Mantel that poor woman...she deserved so much better in life.
Are these people crazy? Affair? No, it was RAPE. End of debate.
She was 14 years old!!! What a disgusting BEAST he was!!!
@@jonothandoeser today that would be true but what was the legal age of consent then?, we have to be careful about condemning people in history by using our moral and legal framework we have today, I do not condone the mans behavior but he was a man off his time and we should remember that warts and all, it doesn't take away from him his other achievements.
Thumbs down on this unbelievable unrelenting adfest.
It is a true part of American history
I asked questions of the Monticello staff about this finding. They reported that this is not true. This is not a hidden room . They out right denied that this was Sally's room.
Makes sense that the staff would know more than archeologists and historians.
*Denial, or lack of a good orientation to the building when in job training......Just saying* ....
One of his African American great great grand sons looks just like him. Just dark skinned toned. Its crazy. No hiding that.
Ok pop
I'd like to see that photo.
"a secret room" with windows. lol
LOL
Dont they all ?
No one ever noticed that or the 15 feet of space was "missing" on the interior of the house? Architects, a construction worker, designer, builder, noone?
It said no windows
@Darrin Fry you're * You're welcome
Easton should have stayed and inherited Jeffersons house as his son.
Jefferson was his master, not his dad!
I can tell you put a lot of thought into this. Thank you! I always wondered why Sally came back to America.
I just hadn’t registered that she had no resources. 😢 Thank you for that insight. (Les Miz makes really concrete what can happen.)😢😡
I wanted to mention that I believe one of the portraits you showed of Jefferson as a young man is actually a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. (Big fan of the play here, and it got me studying.)
And the painting of the pretty girl is his First daughter...not Sally. Her brother stayed in France. She could have ass well.
not ass....meant 'have'.
....Did you know? This 17 minute video had 7 ads in it? One in the last 14 seconds of the video! So enjoyable.
Monticello is awesome, especially Jefferson's bedroom. It is exactly the way he left it when he died. Every American should visit Monticello.
I agree. (I hope they changed the sheets.) His bed is in the middle of two rooms, and, if he got out one side, he was in -- a sitting room, and the other side -- the bedroom. They also told us, on tour, in 1971, that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Presidents #2 and #3, were great friends, and died the same day -- 07/04/1826 (I had to look up the year); it is said that they died within 5 hours of each other. The tour guide told us that John Adams, before his death, said: "Thomas Jefferson lives!" (Of course, they didn't have cell phones or e-mail in those days, so John had not yet heard the news that Tom had died that morning . . . ; )
The docents give GREAT tours of Monticello. VERY informative. A place one should take your children, learn some history. Good memories. W, 02/10/2021
I do believe that one of Sally’s children did maintain his black heritage.
She had many children by him
Linda Fliegel once one gets that devils blood in ones bloodline all is lost.
@@bngr_bngr Are you African American?
A J yes why do you ask?
@@bngr_bngr Just wondering if you have been able to do your own ancestry and if it is African American?
There's a small, hidden in plain sight, pop out panel in his desk that reveals a place for his stash box.
I have be there twice over 35 year ago. The first time that I went there, I went my daughter third grade class as a m parent
( or mother ) CHAPERONES. It was very, very interesting and very EDUCATIONAL and I learned whole LOTS OF NUMEROUS DIFFERENT TYPES KINDS of things. After we left PRESIDENT Thomas Jefferson Monticello. MOUNTAIN top home, then we went in the city of Charlottesville to tour different city buildings. That was also very AMAZING educational experience.. I truly enjoyed my self enormous. My mind went back in time during that time in our COUNTRY history. I would have love to live during that time and before that time. The second time I went was in the summer TIME with my husband and my son who was in boys scouts. We were coming back from a trip from Kings Dominion Amusement park. We stopped AT Thomas Jefferson's home place and Mi. Tavern . I would love to go back to all those NUMEROUS DIFFERENT places . I always love to travel and love to read about different places throughtout the entire WORLD. I took world geography when I WAS in the 10th grade in the school year of 1966 to 1967 when I was a young TEENAGER. I will never any of that. It was great life times of experiences.
Touring those areas is on my bucket list.
I guess we know where the jeffersons came from 😂🤷🏼♀️
Moving on up.
@@timothyanadon9993 .....To the Eastside.
Who really were the "black slaves" that were brought to U.S.A.?
@@chaishalom8701 Do u need all thier names and addresses?
@@matlowjaster1416 * That is not an answer. The point is that they may have originally came from an empire that was powerful in the Americas! Your comment is stereotypical and does not involve critical thinking.
In another life, I put a computer system in for a Tractor Dealership in West Virginia. The Dealer Principle's house was a 2/3 copy of Monticello built by one of Thomas Jefferson's students.
Discovering the room is one thing, but to present the TJ-SH relationship as if it had just been discovered, when it has been well known and documented for ages, takes some nerve. Did not finish the clip.
And why, exactly, is it necessary to blur out some of their faces? To protect their identities? Why?
Pretty sure we covered ALL of this in my US history class in HS the 70's, WITHOUT the ads, with more accurate images, and in less time.
That's weird you learned about a secret room found in 2017 in the 70s.... I'm guessing you didnt go much further then that HS history class.
@@xanderxavage
Not the room, but there wasn't a "mystery" if you didn't blow off the grandson's writings and other evidence. I'm guessing you make a lot of smarmy comments.
@@curtishuffman only on ones I see
@Abigail Slaughter "boffed a slave gal" Go sit down somewhere, shut your mouth and open your ears. SMDH
@@xanderxavage THAN that HS history, not then.
In the late 1990's, the group that gave tours of Monticello told of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemmings.
It makes me wonder why people are constantly trying to second guess what people were thinking 100's of years ago. How about let us all focus on the now and make the best of it we can!
Just like today's delicate generation, calls Christopher Columbus all these names. This man lived nearly 530 years ago. They know less than nothing about how people lived 500+ years ago.
It's all about rewriting history. Right out of the national socialist workers party (NAZI) play book.
@jason lu so did the black slave sellers in Africa, rounding up fellow black people and selling them for slavery.
Because our understanding of history often gives us validation for our actions today. If you see historical figures as clean and spotless people today look terrible and it makes many wish to return to the past ways of doing things, but if you realize they had many flaws and that they didn't practice what they preach you can see each time period has had it's flaws that are not worth repeating.
EXACTLY, THE PAST IS THE PAST AND IT CAN'T BE CHANGED ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Very interesting. I understand that Jefferson and George Washington are in my family tree;from the first 13 families of America. Understand that the descendants are all one big happy family now Saw an old Oprah show that showed the families coming together that was really great show! They were really embracing each other.
My grandmother swears we are related to George Washington's wife. We might be related by marriage! Or it's all bullshit. LOL.
This has been common knowledge for quite some time.... kudos to kiddies...
So many random photos of unrelated people, and the presenter mixes up photos of Eston Hemings vs John Wayles Jefferson.
And the video implies that that's a photo of a young Sally Hemings? Funny how that works, since photography wasn't around until the 1830's.
This whole story was cooked up by an NBC News reporter in 2017 while the house was being restored to its original floor plan, based on an unreliable account by a Jefferson descendant many years after Thomas Jefferson's time. That part of the south wing was where the house slaves had been quartered. It was a space about 13 by 14 feet and so likely housed several slaves. And, let's face it, the architectural curators of the house did not miss a space this large with a chimney going right through the ceiling. They must have known about it, even if it was sealed up for many years.
Yes I was wondering the same thing. Amazing that there were photos of slaves at that time but not of the president of the United States. Ridiculous!
@@markuswx1322 not always true if the people who new about it didn't pass on the information and no one questions the missing space in the building, many buildings have had secret rooms that were forgotten about only to be discovered much later.
@@CrusaderSports250 Fair enough Roger; I don't credit the 501(c)3 that owns it with the standards one might expect of a Federally owned national monument. At various times the house has been flat out of money for restoration, and I recall that about 50 years ago some parts of the house were quite shabby and were closed off. The main point here is that the space in question is just that--in question. The news story that the opening of the room solved some kind of 200-year-old mystery is mostly a human-interest blurb. I half expected the video to announce, "Come and see Tom & Sally's trysting room!" :)
Some of the photos are of Sally's granddaughter. Not sure why they are putting those in the video while talking about Sally thereby making most people think it is her. I also saw Thandie Newton, who portrayed her in a movie. I've done a bit of reading on this and supposedly there are zero paintings and only 3 references from that time to what Sally Hemings looked like. Obviously no photographs as this all pre-dated that technology.
My goodness, the number of ads makes this impossible to watch.
Thank you for this story and History!
Wow that add for the therapist is amazing. Down the rabbit hole I go.
Why did you blur out Harriet Hemings' face?
I kinda think it’s weird that just because u discover a room that it automatically makes it a birthing room for sally hemmings ? The more I read about Jefferson the more I realize what a renaissance man this guy was . It could have been a room for sally Hemings or it could have been some room Jefferson used for plethora of other things !!
What about a storage room? Would explain the lack of a window.
@@brendanielsen1857 storage with a oven?
A safe room probably. Presidents had basically no security and former presidents had none.
Also Sally didn't travel with Jefferson to Paris. She was the chaperone to his daughter, Polly, when she came out after he was settled. Abigail Adam's writes about it in her letters
@Alexandra McLean Then every culture on earth is tarnished and deserves to be condemned, and hated. Every culture on earth has practiced slavery at one time or another in history. Don't judge history by your present morals. Morality changes throughout time, and so people and historical events MUST be judged in context of their own time. To do anything else shows a great lack of understanding of morality and history in general, as well as a very immature way of looking at things. I'm not saying we should not condemn slavery, we should. I'm not saying we should say slavery was right back then, but it was a fact of life in that time period.
@@TheShayneMay Yep, you are right. There were slavery in Asia too. Many wealthy Asians used to own slaves. It was normal at that time.
Miss Hemings was not of half African ancestry. That would be her mom. Miss Hemings was one-fourth African, having one African grandmother. Her dad was Mrs. Jefferson's (Martha) father John Wayles. Her mom was Betty Hemings, daughter of an African woman and one Captain Hemings, skipper of an English trading vessel.
Yes she was one fourth Black just as you said
You are correct, but In a time where "One drop made whole" its a distinction without a difference.
blastulae - It really doesn't matter if Sally Hemings was one-fourth African or not.
1. Back in that time of America, she was a slave and considered to be Black.
2. Before and during the centuries of slavery, people had interracial relationships, both forced and voluntary. In the antebellum years, free people of mixed race (free people of color) were considered legally white if individuals had less than one-eighth or one-quarter African ancestry (depending on the state)
2. In 1895 in South Carolina during discussion, George D. Tillman said:It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of... colored blood...It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of Negro blood. The doors would be open to scandal, malice, and greed.
@@pujikie6131 She was a slave; a standing president owned, oppressed, raped, and committed cultural genocide...because he wanted free labor to work the lands his family stole from another indigenous group. He ethnicity doesn't matter, but do you honestly think a young woman of color would be attracted to her enslaver/oppressor? Stockholm syndrome want make a man pretty.
@@valvacious2793 Interesting, especially the Tillman comment. Well, the info you shared is all interesting, brings interesting perspectives. If Sally was one quarter black, then those children were one-eighth, so would have been considered white, no matter where they went.
Why are the Kennedy gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery being shown as the grave of Thomas Jefferson? The producers of the video need to learn how to do basic research.
Agreed.
Right? Jefferson's gravesite is on the property of Monticello. Descendants of Jefferson are still buried in that same cemetery, to this day!
If that picture of the mona lisa smile is real, her she was beautiful.
There are no known paintings, or photos of Sally. If there was a photo, it would be of a very old lady.
The same video was released by the channel “Amazing facts”. That version has many less ads.
She did not enter the relationship on her own.
I don’t know why they even said that is a possibility. She may have decided to stay on her own but definitely didn’t enter it on her own.
Exactly. She did not but possibly chose to stay because of the "security" it offered her....a place to stay, work, eat, etc.
And you know that because.......?
@@fearlessvic7948 learn history and you will know.
@@charitamccullough6614 I not only worked at Monticello for a number of years, but I also did extensive research on Jefferson and the Hemingses. So where did you get your info on the Jefferson history??
Born into Virginia's plantation society in 1743, Jefferson was surrounded by slavery from an early age. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a Virginia planter, surveyor, and slave owner who relied on the forced labor of at least sixty individuals to support his family's needs and lifestyle. He acquired approximately 175 enslaved people through inheritance: about 40 from the estate of his father, Peter Jefferson, in 1764, and 135 from his father-in-law, John Wayles, in 1774. Jefferson purchased fewer than twenty slaves in his lifetime. Sally Hemings. Sarah "Sally" Hemings ( c. 1773-1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was always present at Monticello when Sally conceived. I can't believe how you've gotten such a well-known story so screwed up.
Many of the most basic facts are simply wrong!
And was he the only male at Monticello at those times? The DNA evidence says not.
So was Jefferson's brother Randolph and nephew
@@godssara6758 No evidence of a liaison with Randolph or any of his nephews. Lore of the nephews was promoted by those wishing to discredit the uncomfortable truth.
That is debatable. Also there’s evidence his brother could have fathered the children as he was around more frequently. I still think they are TJ’s kids though but this isn’t completely proven.
Good man Jeff!! Way to shake it up!! Surely he must have known that it would come out someday!! 👍😊
Thanks for sharing
At 16:46 the narrator begins a sentence with "What we do know for sure", then proceeds to repeat assertions that were brought up earlier as speculation. More pseudo-historical blather. No mystery solved here.
You must be part of the Jefferson Society!
Well the facts are there are African american descendants of Thomas Jefferson. You need to google it for your self or do you still believe the birther movement.
Exactly
@@nancelee3535 And you need to do better research. Do really believe everything you find on Google? Seriously? Google is a search engine; it finds whatever is on the internet that you search for, but has no way of telling, nor does it claim to be able to tell, whether it's true. There is ZERO evidence of any African American descendants of *Thomas* Jefferson. If you're talking about the DNA testing, the final results concluded that no member of the Jefferson family fathered Sally Hemings' first four children, and that the youngest, Eston, was fathered by one of about two dozen males in Thomas Jefferson's extended contemporary family. That's all the DNA proved, and all other assertions you found on Google that Thomas Jefferson fathered any of Hemings' children is rumor unsubstantiated by any facts whatsoever. What you believe is your opinion colored by your own prejudice, but to state is as a fact is, to put it bluntly, a lie.
@@matthewnorman4567 I do not have that honor. I merely wish to defend someone who has been accused without any evidence to support the accusation. That you wouldn't do the same does not speak well of you.
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Also, if you’re a slave NOTHING IS VOLUNTARY. 🙄
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Interesting history - assembling fragments, some of which I've heard before.
Too many commercial interruptions - is this really necessary?
In the notes, the source and identity of the photographs should be identified since there were no cameras in Jefferson's time. Also identify the art of the young African-American woman.
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We learn he was human. A good human when all is told but , a human with frailties. Never met a perfect human and don't expect to in this life.. Still it is good that most are not outright bad.
So, you are forgiving this overt use of a powerless woman. This is really hard for me to stomach. Sally Hemmings had little choice because she was a SLAVE. She had to do what her MASTER demanded. What she did with that request could not have been without coersion. This was not just a little oversight. It was abuse. Had Jefferson freed her and given her a choice that probably could have been just a little "imperfect." But his absolute use of her as a sex slave was absolutely awful. I won't overlook exactly what this was. He was ashamed of his relationship and he used her for his satisfaction while she was a young slave.
@@helengarrett6378 I think you are divorcing this too far from it's proper context. Jefferson likely realized that even 'freed' slaves were not truly free, and did the best he could under the awful circumstances. You are also assuming a great deal about the nature of their relationship. We don't know what went on, but we do know she could have chosen freedom while in France. Slavery has been a blight on our history, and the inability to fix the issues still remaining haunt us to this day. I sincerely believe that they loved each other, and did the best they could in a country that was far more divided than we see today.
I agree and find that trying to frame history through today's lens is not only usually not accurate but socially gets us no where. I am Caucasian and was married to an African American man, although he preferred the term American of African descent. We faced a lot of racism in our relationship including from our families. When we had our one and only child, a girl, my father fell in love and that child alone changed my father and mother's position on race. We are all subject to our racial issues. What I learned from my marriage was that we are all racist to a certain degree. Some of us just hide it better or are not even aware of it until something exposes it. I believe that there was true affection, if not love, between Sally and Thomas Jefferson. If he didn't care about her he could just have raped her and moved on. Many, if not most, slave owners did. He didn't need to have her in his home and provide for her and their children. He cared about her I believe.
@@helengarrett6378 So let me ask you this -- how do you think *your* friends, family, and admirers (surely you have some?) would feel if after your death someone asserted as an established fact that you abused young boys, *WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE* except that they saw you frequently around young boys, and put in a lot of unsubstantiated details about what you did and how you did it? It's that kind of character assassination that should spark your outrage. Your comment is based on a completely unproven premise and is full of assertions about things you can't possibly know anything about. At least *try* to be fair-minded.
Love is for all ,no matter the color of one's skin!
This is very old news....historical fact, established long ago. It's well documented that Sally returned from France with Jefferson because he promised she would live a life of luxury, which is what happened,. There is no 'mystery' whatsoever.
0:32 - If you're going to talk about memorials to Jefferson, don't show the grave at Arlington Cemetery of JFK. I'm from New Zealand and fascinated by US History. Even I spotted this.
He upheld his belief that "all men are created equal"...in a way ✌🏻😊 Joanne from Singapore ❤️
BEAUTIFUL IS BEAUTIFUL. LOVE IS LOVE. INSTINCT IS EVERYTHING. OPINION MEANS NOTHING.
Perfect example of what not to do if you want people to subscribe to your channel.
"...that all men were created equal which contradicted the way he lived his own life." When you accept that people of color were not seen as human at that time it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Nor would a relationship with a 16 year old been seen as unacceptable.
@Denise Eugene Absolutely. And it's a poster child example of why people shouldn't try to erase the past. We learned from it and that education gave us the 15th Amendment. After that, we gals had to do some work to be included ourselves.
Madam Twonky No one is trying to erase the past. We know about Adolph Hitler and the Nazis even though their are no monuments glorifying their atrocities.
That phrase was an edit to the original. Men meant different things then.
In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, written ca. 100 years later, Elizabeth Bennett is asked her age and at 20, is a bit ashamed to admit that she is neither married nor engaged. 16 y.o., even today is allowed for women to marry, although in many states, it must be with parental permission. Martha Jefferson died in her early 30s after giving birth to several children. It is clear that women married or were in a serious relationship at a much younger age than today.
It’s true. Jefferson was an absolute dawg
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They showed on ch. 56 PBS the story and the rumors were proven true family descendants were brought together
This is interesting...🧐..
a 16 minute ad???? are you kidding me? 16 minutes.
It’s a great place to visit. Amazing his thinking was way past the time period.
My mother mentioned Sally Hemmings, Jefferson's "concubine," if you will, when we went to visit Monticello back in, oh, say, 1971. Part of my mother's tale went on to say that when Jefferson's wife died, (at a youngish-age, considering), that she made him promise to never marry again. Apparently he lived up to his promise.
Anyway, that was what my mother told me, so the tale of Sally Hemmings goes 'way back. ; ) W, 02/10/2021
Your mother told you a fairytale...
The movie "Jefferson in Paris" is on you tube, the full movie and the trailer. I am going to watch it tomorrow.
Cannot find it.
VERY INTERESTING. AS WELL AS VERY EDUCATIONAL.
I myself, a living descendant of Jefferson. On my fathers mother’s side of the family.
The only people that know the absolute truth are the ones that were in 🎶the room where it happened🎶
Right on point
Jefferson was the slave master and Sally was his slave.
This was an interesting video; however, if you don't want to watch a commercial every 30 seconds, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.
And I see no reason why he wouldn't have truly loved this woman.
She was a child , She was around 12 13 ,or 14 years old when he raped her
That I guess I missed
From uk knowing nothing about Jefferson is this a true representation. Where did they get the lady’s photos from. How did they miss this room it seems impossible.
There were no known pictures of Sally Hemmings. Where did you come up with all of these pictures that you're claiming are her?
How do you know there was no pics of the women , just what makes you so sure 🤔
@@CHILDOFGOD13 Photography was invented in 1826. Hemmings lifespan was 1773-1835. If there exist photos of her, she'll be in her 50's-60's
@@Yiruma27 Photography didn't get rolling at all until the late 1830s, and it wasn't t until the 1880s that family photographs began to be taken.
I am pretty sure the photograph is of actress Thandie Newton who played Sally Hemmings in the film "Jefferson in Paris."
I have a picture of what sally hemings probably looked like.
He did not grant her her freedom she bargained for her children’s freedom.
He knew Sally would be safe and well cared for living with Martha. However he authorized Martha to free Sally if she so desired which is what eventually happened.
He was a good man...
I think they loved each other
Spirits making their past known by tearing these attempts of covering them up apart! They refuse to be hidden! ....
There are no images of Sally Hemings that were done during her lifetime. Her grandmother was a kidnapped Africa impregnated by the slave ship captain. She & her daughter were purchased by the man who eventually became Jefferson’s father in law. He impregnated the daughter of the African woman & the slave ship captain. The daughter born was Sally. When Jefferson married Martha Wayles she came with a dowry that included her half sister Sally.
Jefferson left his youngest two daughters in Virginia while he went to Paris to become the US Envoy. One of the daughters left in America died. Jefferson sent for the surviving daughter. With her came Sally Hemings. I have always felt very uneasy with the age gap between Jefferson & Hemings. In some states that would constitute rape.
The idea of age of consent is a very recent idea. Since you seem to have done research on Sally's ancestry, maybe you should do some research on Virginia law at the time of Jefferson and see if an age of consent is mentioned. My guess it is not. It was very common for women to be married off at 14, 15, etc. years old. And I am positive that no age of consent existed for slaves. Quit judging history with current-day eyes.
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@@ecneb he was a rapist then
@@ecneb Per Wikipedia "In 1880, the ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7."
@Mrs. T. Seriously? It was kidnapping & rape. I find that horrifying!
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No one is perfect. There are many many people who live one way and believe a different way.
the word for that is hypocrite