Why are they sugar coating her life story? Her life was not an “adventure”, she was a slave and this is not a love story bc she had no choice.

@jackieburns5257

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, like it was fun for a 16-year-old to be given to a middle-aged man, with no access to young, handsome men her age. How is this an "adventure"? It is sad. Sex was actually "rape".

@sonnycorbi1970

4 жыл бұрын

kai wyatt - Life is a journey Kai wtatt - your right, she had no choice - do any of us, in hindsight - We are all prisoners and yes slaves between our own two ears - now at 77, this coming January, I know a lot more about Why I traveled the road I did and did the things I did - I am not as hard on myself or the costars in my life story as I use to be - (I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN IS GONE - IT’S GOING TO BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT SUNSHINY DAY) -

@aprilwest1883

4 жыл бұрын

@@archiemegel1013 shame on you.

@cabezitadealgodon

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kai! That was one of the FIRST things I noticed. So are girls stolen by Boko Haram also having an "adventure"? Why do we use euphemisms when it comes to wealthy men in positions of power? If it was love she & her children would have lived as free humans & NOT as enslaved humans.

@cabezitadealgodon

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackieburns5257 thank you Jackie! Very well said. Middle aged white men are not at the top of a young teen's list.

She was a 14 year old slave that resembled his dead wife and he used her sexually until he died with a promise to free their children. This is a sad story not a love story.

@billpracells8876

4 жыл бұрын

Church

@danayadennis

4 жыл бұрын

caroline magee his wife’s sister

@carolinemagee8033

4 жыл бұрын

@@danayadennis correct. I forgot to add that important keeping it in the family fact

@Dennyswifey

3 жыл бұрын

Yass they are really white washing

@kimbyrd2298

3 жыл бұрын

She was his wife's sister. He met her long before she was 14.

She definitely deserves to be recognized and honored.

@transatlanticize

6 ай бұрын

what for

@tierawilliams5736

6 ай бұрын

Agreed she literally lived with Jefferson since she was 2 let that sink in...

@wendylederer367

3 ай бұрын

Creating a monument in her honor would mean looking at the ugly truth of our history. People aren’t willing to face that. It’s easier to sweep it under the rug.

@godssara6758

3 ай бұрын

​@@tierawilliams5736Tom Woodson was the child Sally came back pregnant with from Paris 6 DNA tests proved that he was not Jefferson's. So this whole thing is nonsense. Eston Hemmings born while Sally was in her 30s and Thomas 65 DNA tests proved that he was of a male Jefferson and most likely the Father was one of the 8 younger Jefferson men that were in proximity. At 65 Thomas Jefferson had nerve damage in his spine and no Viagra back then makes it even less likely

@godssara6758

3 ай бұрын

​@@wendylederer367Tom Woodson was the child Sally came back pregnant with from Paris 6 DNA tests proved that he was not Jefferson's. So this whole thing is nonsense. Eston Hemmings born while Sally was in her 30s and Thomas 65 DNA tests proved that he was of a male Jefferson and most likely the Father was one of the 8 younger Jefferson men that were in proximity. At 65 Thomas Jefferson had nerve damage in his spine and no Viagra back then makes it even less likely

It is crazy how some of these people really try to justify what happened with Sally. There was no way she could agree to be with someone decades older than her. Especially someone who owned her. What is she going to tell him? No? I highly doubt their relationship was consensual.

@TheSocratease

Жыл бұрын

That part. The lengths some people go to to be comfortable with a lie.

@harmony3279

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@xr2863

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to her descendants who don't agree with the opinions of the uninformed populous who believe they know more than her descendants.

@GlorysMommy

Жыл бұрын

The fact that the first 3 minutes started with the words ADVENTURE and CHOICES SHE MADE was so disrespectful

@beatrixbrennan1545

Жыл бұрын

Sally had the option to stay in France and become a free woman but elected to go back to America with Jefferson

I think we should stop calling them "Masters" but instead refer to them as Criminals or Human Traffickers.

@amycakes6809

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly or Abductors🤷🏾‍♀️

@KayKay-us1kl

4 жыл бұрын

Amy Cakes I agree

@truthhurts5602

4 жыл бұрын

No refer to them by what they are Satan worshipping pedophiles.

@yoboytay2314

4 жыл бұрын

Beast

@TheeTargetedJourney

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds bout right

Did they just call a 14 year old and 40 year old sexual relationship consensual. Grosss

@mzkiki222

3 жыл бұрын

This is disgusting.. our story needs to be told truthfully 😢

@JWHealing

3 жыл бұрын

@@mzkiki222 Can someone recommend an account without these white supremacist BS lies covering up rape and pedophilia and minimizing the enslavement of human beings? It'd be nice to learn more about her.

@lilithgrrrl

3 жыл бұрын

Janet Wright Readings Agreed, I want a mini series about her life told by her voice, written and directed by POC ... would be amazing to have a story like hers finally told instead of this horror

@victirynom

3 жыл бұрын

yes, he did. the look on his face as he breathes deeply he knew that was Despicable and wrong.not to mention the children who became bastards, they were almost an afterthought. when white folks mention the lack of black men in the home, how then does one justify creating a human being and then enslaving them, a forerunner to Jeffrey Epstein

@lilithgrrrl

3 жыл бұрын

R Bray and yet despite her whiteness, she was enslaved her entire life. You’re entitled to your opinion, but you haven’t changed mine. Nice try.

GOD Bless this woman she lived during an era of pain,suffering and servitude. She persevered in spite of her situation for which she had no control. I commend her because she did what she had to do in order to survive. There was no love between the two of them only understanding of their places in society. Creating riffs that are still causing raised eyebrows.Lord knows African Americans were racially intermingled when you look at a lot of physical features to include complexions, hair texture to the shape of their noses, lips and body structure.

Slavery is one of the worlds worst crimes

@msw8966

12 күн бұрын

Well, most of Africa is doing it. You better get over there and stop it.

@CVT2332

12 күн бұрын

America will be judged harshly for the genocide of chattel Slavery. All of the Americas will be.

I need to hear the BLACK VERSION OF THIS STORY

@islandtaro2222

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

@cheesyDELISH48

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there isn't one. We only know what happened based on writings/letters from that time. Slaves were mostly uneducated/ignorant so of course their stories/experiences aren't written down. We can only assume based off of what historians have found through archives

@margaretsamson9810

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheesyDELISH48 It's in her son's book, cited during the film.

@davidfrye6055

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!!! Truckingwithlove

@talibahburrell4493

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheesyDELISH48 we can absolutely go by the oral traditions passed downby the slaves. They were uneducated because it was illegal for them to read or be schooled and the punishment was literally death. But they weren't dumb. They ran the plantations. They were skilled workers just without a formal education.

Weird how we were good enough to nurse their babies, and to sleep with, but not good enough to treat like a human being that God created. Truly sad. How do you inherited a human person ugh 🙄

@victorialindsey6305

3 жыл бұрын

We are looking at it from 21st century mindset. In that time frame it was common girls were married off at first period. It wasn't right but opting for the comfortable life was not uncommon. And her ancestors don't tell their story far from it was an unspeakable trade off but is strippers, and prostitutes making a different choice?

@lahawk7410

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I never understood that.. They could sleep with you or have you as a wet nurse, but down the line you couldn't drink from the same water fountain or sit near you on the bus. So sad. Even sadder that racism is still alive and well and seems to be increasing.

@r.p.5903

3 жыл бұрын

@@victorialindsey6305 That's not a correct comparison... Far from it.

@11212barbie

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏼💛

@Armistead_MacSkye

3 жыл бұрын

Rolaine: as upsetting and enraging as it is to watch this documentary, it can't compare to the feeling of depression you get from handling and reading original documents. They so casually list people like property. It's very upsetting. A whole different mindset back then - pure evil.

It's a very sad story actually. This young girl who was 14 years old and enslaved was sexually assaulted by her slave master and had to submit to being his concubine and bear his children or potentially be killed or sold away from her family. I see no love. Only an old man using a young girl for his sexual pleasure, then possibly feeling guilty for it later and deciding that he owed her, so he gave her and her children freedom. People put these so called founding fathers on a pedestal. History reveals many sick things.

@pianoreigns

11 ай бұрын

The guy was a celebrated rapist. As many white men presidents still are today

@brightemerald3924

10 ай бұрын

Very very true.

@hannah1943

10 ай бұрын

there is no proof of that at all that she would sexually assaulted

@brightemerald3924

10 ай бұрын

@@hannah1943 How do you know? Black enslaved women were routinely sexually brutalized. It went without saying or documented. Sally was a slave. Nothing further to say here.

@cumherebud

7 ай бұрын

​@@hannah1943she was 14 SICKO! Aint that proof enough for you?

Thank you so much for this very informative documentary on Sally Hemming’s life. 😮

Why are they acting like her and her mother wasn’t raped? This is sick.

@_winter_maryrose4684

3 жыл бұрын

sunshine73308 don’t worry this was from 2000 if this was made in 2020 don’t worry this documentary wouldn’t have flown.

@vanprince2287

3 жыл бұрын

Only the racists here are acting like her and her mother weren't raped and it is a double sickness!

@amyk6453

3 жыл бұрын

Different time. I'm sure everyone making the video would agree that it's rape just as it's wrong to own slaves... Just sharing the story from perspective of the time that it happened. Even my grandma was married at 15.. not that long ago and even then that was pretty 'normal.'

@vanprince2287

3 жыл бұрын

@@amyk6453 But your grandma wasn't raped and even now the man who had sex with your grandma when she was 15 is against the law and that crime is statutory rape. What you call perspective because it was slavery has nothing to do with time.Because when a man rape child or an adult female it is rape. "Time has told, Time is telling, and Time will tell again."_-Van Prince). Amy K, any way moral people read your response=you are justifying the rape of Sally by Jefferson. Why?

@amyk6453

3 жыл бұрын

@@vanprince2287 how do you know my grandma was not raped? If she was she is very closed off and wouldn't tell me. And in her day she was legally married at 15 so it didn't count as rape then as it would now. I'm not comparing my grandmothers life to a slave even though she did have a harsh abused life which is why she left home so young. I'm not sayiing rape or owing slaves is ok. Of course it is not. Simply saying for those times, the ages people got married and had families were much younger than now. No exscuse for rape ever or owning slaves. Those were the times when people got away with horrendous crimes. Very sad time to be alive.

I hate the narrative that Sally and Thomas were “in love.” She and her children were viewed as property.

@jellybeans9283

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, same thing with pocahontas, in real life she was a underage child. They romanticize it too make it to downplay the severity of the situation

@clairelouise4063

3 жыл бұрын

@@jellybeans9283 and dont forget that in islam mohammed married his favourite wife aiesha when she was five and they consummated the realtionship when she was 9. maybe with time , some people may feel in a strong enough positions to offer some form of forgiveness. but this should never ever ever be forgotton. once we start to forget, this behaviour can sneak in amongst us again. it may not be black white next time it might be black / east asia or oriental origin. it could be white/central asia, not to forget about the current war. or the hatred that caused the hollocaust

@indirussell7083

3 жыл бұрын

No one is talking about pocahontas or aishsa, this is about sally. Every time someone is showing the horrible treatment of black ppl, someone always has to bring up another ppl. This is about sally. My goodness no one wants to let it be about the Atlantic slave trade by itself

@indirussell7083

3 жыл бұрын

@Simone Casillas I stand on what I said, this is about Sally, every time someone is talking about the atrocities of blk ppl someone comes along to include every one else. That's because ppl have a problem with admitting to the atrocities of blk ppl. This is about Sally

@toxxiklovee

3 жыл бұрын

@@indirussell7083 it does matter if it's about Sally or any one else this has happened to many other poeple they are just saying it is the same story being repeated over and over

This is example of pure evil not wicked. He gave the example, of him being rejected and also how he rejected her, and why America's had to be built, by her people and for her people protection. He acknowledged, that one must see his actions and be wise of the war, that is in hearts of man. Although, he contributed to the suffering of women ,some whites were the refuge of the women, to be housed and given some freedom. Let's not discredit the good nor overlook the Evil or wicked intentions in his words and actions. He knew it was wrong to do, so , however he was in a tough position, so to forge secured property rights, and the whole Louisiana purchase of the Natives side of land here, he had to win her over and used her to teach or give the children the lie. ❤

Not them turning rape of both Sally’s mother & her into love stories. That’s disgusting.

Paused at “Difficult choices she made.”😒 Not a love story. She was an enslaved child.

@aaronlinton-chambers

4 жыл бұрын

Numbaone Barbers she was raped molested and groomed. You can’t fall in love with someone whose abusing you this isn’t a love story smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

@Bomma45

4 жыл бұрын

Aaron Linton- Chambers well said smh👏🏽

@AHMAD-2324

4 жыл бұрын

@@aaronlinton-chambers My sentiments EXACTLY !!!

@TheMorganVEVO

4 жыл бұрын

That stood out to me as well. I was thinking “huh??”

@IceManLikeGervin

4 жыл бұрын

She was property. No choices just obedience. There can be no love with wickedness, evil knows no love.

He saw that beautiful black girl and preyed on her. This was nothing but rape. She was forced to conform. But played her cards well to secure her children’s future . Sadly there are many other Sally’s

@queensheba9404

4 жыл бұрын

Still was black

@lillanthompson9086

4 жыл бұрын

@Carolynska S she was black

@mariacarter1013

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. He was a pedatory old slave master and she an innocent, young enslaved child. He was duplicitous and contradictory in his actions. She however, was strong and dignified.

@tinacarlton9949

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was one in today's time

@shehasevolved8596

4 жыл бұрын

@@queensheba9404 naw she is the descendants of a white man not black man

Thank you for this truthful account of what this young woman's life was like. This is just one of the storys that should be taught in all our schools. This country was built by enslaved people and there's no reason we should not be teaching and discussing this history.

I was born and raised in Laos I know nothing about slavery until moved here to United States thanks for sharing. As painful as it is history is part of our lives it is important to learn from it learn from our mistakes so we can better ourselves for future generations

@scarletredmagic6724

3 ай бұрын

I agree I'm from Africa and to find outin My Country my own ppl owned there fellow Africans as slaves also my husband is Irish to find out even there were Irish slaves ugh slavery still exits

@marcellaisaacs7425

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you want to learn the truth. There are some who don't.

@Chaydazed

Ай бұрын

You didn’t know Africans were kidnapped and enslaved all over the world?? How is that possible please tell?

@user-vr2kj5em8i

Ай бұрын

You must not have very much of an education, if you've never heard the history of how Africans were stolen, brought to America and then enslaved. What type of education did you receive where you didn't even know that your fellow Africans endured such a horror. They were your people; From your land.

She lost me when she said that "slaves sometimes did fall in love with their masters" 🙄🙄🙄 This wasnt even close to a love story. This is a sick story about a child that was raped by her own "master"

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

Rape under what law?

@nicoleshakur4496

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilnelmar8007 smh ew

@kclark8281

2 жыл бұрын

Right! There’s a difference between love and Stockholm syndrome. These Karen’s need to STFU.

@_swesters_

2 жыл бұрын

Plus it was a way of survival and in no way romantic in the slightest... it was such a horrible power imbalance it grosses me out to even consider it love.

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicoleshakur4496 is that all?

"Being owned is not a desirable state of affairs!" Well stated lady. This was no romance story. This is one big horror. Young girl getting used and abused by a inhumane sicko!

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

3 жыл бұрын

A man of his time. It is an unfortunate truth, but it is the truth. The point is that when one looks at the historical record with modern sensibilities, it is near impossible to judge the relationship between one man and the status quo of the era. Playing devils advocate here... Jefferson inherited many slaves at Monticello in a time where owning human beings was the norm, albeit an insane norm by our modern standards and sensibilities. Interestingly enough however, Jefferson also *personally condemned the Institution of slavery* in his drafts of the Constitution. Yes, he was a hypocrite as he was a slave owner himself. These were Jefferson's words (paraphrased). *"Slavery presents the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Slavery is contrary to the laws of nature, which decree that everyone has a right to personal liberty"* - Thomas Jefferson There was an entire section he had written, intended for the final draft of the Constitution regarding the moral evil of slavery, but in the interests of the newly born nation, he was implored to remove the condemnation of the institution of slavery in the final draft, as many rightfully believed that it would alienate the Souther Colonies. This is the reality, per historical record. History is not as simple as many will make it out to be. Perspective is near impossible to attain with modern sensibilities, but if one wants to be an academic historian they must do their best to put themselves in the shoes of their subjects.

@Adriana-vp1rm

3 жыл бұрын

People like u r soooooo silly and ignorant of how things are done on this planet is crazy. Slavery is commanded by God to humble wicked nations. Goodness me....

@tachic4152

2 жыл бұрын

@@Adriana-vp1rm bs

@mervyngreene6687

2 жыл бұрын

@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 Jefferson's behavior with Hemings was far from "a man of his times."

@vil5193

2 жыл бұрын

@@Adriana-vp1rm you’re a fucking sicko if u think that this “god” would really want his people to be raped and tortured to “punish” a nation

Sally did the best she could for herself and her children. Judge her for the times she lived in. It is certain that she must have been a real beauty even tho no paintings exist of her. Also, people say her voice was the same as Patsy, her half sister.

Horrifying history. Sally Hemings will be in my thoughts forever. 💝

@parkersmith7611

Жыл бұрын

Hello Odia how are you doing today? Sally Hemings is a hero🙏🏼🙌🏼 How many enslaved women do we know the full names of? She lives on into the future! Her story is being told. People think of her. She could never have imagined 😪😪

Funny how folks were acting like the slave owners weren’t sleeping with and impregnating the slave women. Crazy.

@jackieburns5257

4 жыл бұрын

They all did, that is why we are a variety of colors.

@bluetheory2

4 жыл бұрын

You mean raping

@girlonfire2.076

4 жыл бұрын

@@bluetheory2 not all relationships came from rape....you ever read slave narratives you would know this

@taneekawilder2141

4 жыл бұрын

@Carolynska S The American Southern states were not the only slave states. Slavery existed in the North as well. New York City in particular was one of the most lucrative slave states. Also, slavery in Canada existed for 200 years.

@taneekawilder2141

4 жыл бұрын

@Carolynska S Sure. For the most part, many people thought, and were taught that slavery was only relegated to the South. Information about slavery in NY was not public knowledge to many. It was hidden on purpose, but knowledge is power. I am a native New Yorker, and there is a lot of information/ research/excavations, burial grounds, parks that were once plantations to see that slavery did exist. New York was one of the most lucrative states in the slave trade. The NY historical society did a great exhibit on Slavery in NY many years ago, and it blew a lot of minds. The online exhibit is still present for those that were unable to see it in the flesh. Here is the link to that, as well as the African burial ground which was discovered in the 90's. www.slaveryinnewyork.org/gallery_8.htm www.thenation.com/article/hidden-history-slavery-new-york/

If only Sally Hemings could speak from the grave to tell the world the TRUTH.😢😢

@evejohnson3660

3 жыл бұрын

her dna has spoke from the grave. all her great grand kids and great great relatives were tested and proven to be related

@smc1774

3 жыл бұрын

@@evejohnson3660 👍👍

@AquariusStar

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to hear her perspective

@michellewalker803

3 жыл бұрын

Im here her granddaughter

@ryleighallis0n

3 жыл бұрын

Michelle Walker you aren't her grand daughter💀

Sally was a very resilient and wise woman. She was in survival mode. She didn’t always trust Jefferson but she grew to as far as she could throw him. She would’ve never chose this life for herself or her children. She would’ve much rather they be free. I believe her loyalty spoke for itself. Sally knew that one day we would come to know her family history. She is American history. We want the truth, this is what makes our country so beautiful. Make ups of so many different backgrounds struggles strength and endurance. America is all of us born here coming together to get more compassion love and respect for all that is deserved based on basic principle. Black history is American history.❤️Love is the medicine!! Love and respect for ALL. One nation☝🏽

WOW! Thank you for this historical information. Professionally presented.

This is complete BS. This is NOT a love story. It's a story of survival. And still today Jefferson made sure his black descendents could never inherit/profit from him.

@f.j.williams6154

4 жыл бұрын

Thats what happens when white ppl tell black history

@josieber8032

4 жыл бұрын

Jefferson was flat broke when he died there was very little for anyone to inherit. Almost everything he owned was sold at his death to paid his debts except 5 members of the Hemings family.

@jenetteperryman5063

4 жыл бұрын

He died broke

@monanae1976

4 жыл бұрын

Damn

@QUEENPUDDING-cc2eq

4 жыл бұрын

Thats why i gotta learn my herstory...

"Her children not their children."How disgusting, her age, her status, what he did was just wrong, period.

@josieber8032

4 жыл бұрын

I agree he was wrong but no one today is responsible for his actions but him as for what Sally Hemings felt we have no idea what she felt or thought or if she was even aware of it being in the news papers Which is what the video said.

@neilsoulman

4 жыл бұрын

Agree on everything except the age part. It was common in that day for people to marry much earlier, up until the beginning of the last century. That is because the life expectancy was much shorter, this is still the case in some remote corners of the world. My mothers parents were immigrants, grandma was only 15 when she was married, 14 year age difference, but that was the norm back then, people did not look at it as perverted in that day.

@neilsoulman

3 жыл бұрын

@sara lincoln #100

@tiffanyhooker5160

2 жыл бұрын

@@josieber8032 we know exactly how she felt disgusted at being enslaved by her relatives then forced to sleep with a degenerate like Jefferson. Pedophilia is a disgusting act I don’t care what year and social norms existed it’s disgusting as are your words here.

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong according whom or what law ?

This always brings me to tears because of the harsh reality and truth of the very heroic Ladies mann how much i now love them.

Thanks for documenting this for posterity.

Good grief! Poor Sally. If that man couldn’t show any affection towards the children he had with Sally, it proves that he used Sally, just like any other dirty old man of that time.

@militzamadrid462

2 жыл бұрын

...he probably care for them, i read he gave them good jobs AND they enyojed some degree ofvpreferences. Jefferson could not openly show affection probably too.

@nicoleshakur4496

2 жыл бұрын

@Ronald Filkins whoa. You're extremely funny. Cool joke

@AudreyWilliamsMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Anyone who can accept a life of slavery for their own flesh and blood can't have true love in their heart for the mother or children. It's so creepy to me that anyone would even suggest that Sally had any real choices back in the day. Women in all parts of the world didn't have the same rights as men, which meant that black women were always at the bottom.

@akbarabdulraheem3903

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Thomas Jefferson had any idea of the depth of a Mother's love for her children.He DOUBLE RAPED SALLY HEMMING. A minor OR. a slave does not have consent to give.

@claysmith4909

Жыл бұрын

Just as Andrew Jackson offspring children called "Jackson white" mulatto children of his ancestors. Wow!

"A remarkable courageous life as a SLAVE" Honestly why did anyone think it was okay to try and turn a 14 year old being raped by a founding father routinely into a love story.

@aminamuhammad4578

2 жыл бұрын

When I heard that I said "Wtf, hold on we dealing with some sick individuals fr"

@SunnyGirlFlorida

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody said it was a love story.

@noeyez_

2 жыл бұрын

@@SunnyGirlFlorida they were literally romanticising the story 🤦🏽‍♂️

@Shaka_Zulu

2 жыл бұрын

Sally Hemmings traveled to Paris (1787-1789) to meet Jefferson and was paid by him during this time period. If she felt she was being mistreated she had the right under French Law to petition for freedom. The record shows she decided to return to Virginia with him knowing in advance that legally she would be regarded as a slave upon arrival. This is a strange course of action to take for someone who is allegedly being repeatedly raped while freedom is available for the asking. Sally Hemmings was 3/4 white who would go on to give birth to children who were 7/8 white. Three of the four surviving children identified as white and would go on to live free lives accepted into white society. Edit: guys stop liking this comment it leaves out vital facts such as Sally didn’t speak French and she couldn’t abandon her family in the US. This is a case of Stockholm syndrome, Sally was abused.

@noeyez_

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shaka_Zulu ever heard of stockholmes syndrome?

Thank You Mr. SKINNER FOR THIS STORY LOVED IT!!

We will never truly know what if their relationship with one another was consensual or not, but I feel like Sally H was smarter than she was given credit for. Both her grandmother and mother were daughters of white slave masters with one of their female black slaves, and was therefore likely taught by her mother as well as learned firsthand how different they were treated as “house slaves” versus those who were “field/farm working slaves”. She was also likely aware of how difficult it would have been for her to survive on her own as a free person in paris, especially if she was an unwed mother, and knew how difficult it would’ve been, so she decided the best thing to do for both herself and her child was to stay with Jefferson and negotiate as much as possible for a better future for her future children in order for her to return to America with him. She had to have had some influence over him, rather that was emotional or sexual, or he wouldn’t have cared enough to negotiate with her to return with him & keep his promise. She also would’ve known she had this and used it to her advantage for her future children. In many ways it’s like the evolution theory of “survival of the fittest”. It’s possible that she could have really loved him, even though she was his slave, however I think it would have been more along the lines of a Stokholm Syndrome kind of thing versus actual truly being in love with him. This is obviously just my personal thoughts on this and I may be completely off on it all. The thing that hits me the worst about their “relationship” is the fact that she was just a toddler when she moved to Monticello and he took ownership of her & her family. He was around her pretty much her entire life and basically watched her grow up since she and her family had been “house slaves” first at his FIL’s and then his own. It disgusting and makes you wonder at what point he started thinking of her in a sexual manner. Yes, girls were often married as young teenagers back then, my grandma was only 14 when she my grandpa who was 24, got married in 1947, but the age difference and all around circumstances are very different in their case vs those like my grandparents.

@eileensummers507

27 күн бұрын

😊

She did not love him she had to survive.

@fitamifikanmila5840

3 жыл бұрын

TEARS! Because your view aptly captures the situation she found herself. And it is sad that it was not even implied that that was the situation

@nicholepsaintvil887

3 жыл бұрын

This 😢😢😢

@oliverphippen1957

3 жыл бұрын

She loved him because he was the BOSS and he was not chocolate ????

@SuperFashionista11

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree with you

@bradcurtis5324

2 жыл бұрын

Woman today do a lot of things today to survive. Mostly hook up with guys with money, so they ca n get some.

Did Sally have a say so? No Did he let her go in Paris? No Did he free their children? No Did he love her? Of course not We need a re-telling of this story!

@mayreacts8030

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@joyk979

3 жыл бұрын

He freed the kids

@mayreacts8030

3 жыл бұрын

@@joyk979 no he did not

@joyk979

3 жыл бұрын

@@mayreacts8030 he did

@mayreacts8030

3 жыл бұрын

@@joyk979 not for the sake of his children 🙄 though.

I am a American and my cousin is a Canadian citizen who 2 generations of the slaves in her family who worked on the Sugarcane plantations. She had many stories about her family and she shared them with us. Her father was a great Artist.

Im glad it ends well. Also, very interesting that historians are interested in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemming's lifes back in 1700s-1800s. I am happy to see the gathering of their descendents in the photo here. I really hope that everyone keep in touch and have get togethers whenever they have the time. Share their interests and life experiences and hobbies. Just look what positivity built from all these. My husband is part Malay and part Japanese. He has relatives who are of Indian blood, Malay blood and Japanese blood. From very dark-tanned complexion to pale complexion. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

@Freethinker548

Күн бұрын

Ends well. No part of slavery ended well. Including this!

They was not consent! He took it whenever he wanted it. And it was not Love it was lust. She had no Rights. She was a child..😡😡

@angellathomas1755

3 жыл бұрын

Disgusting

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

There were no concept of childhood then ," children" were seen as little adults therefore it was possible to married females as young as 7 ,. that was how it then

Sally gave her life for her children. She is the hero who needs to be recognized.

@nkkwku7113

Жыл бұрын

A hero for her children born from rape you mean?

@heatherfulmore3412

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@cherierhynes8514

Жыл бұрын

It seems Jefferson had others doing his dirty work and this factored into his worldly success...but success according to what standards. Just another creepy slaveowner. The original pedaphiles.

@blond0075

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. This brought a tear to my eye. Sally, rather she loved Jefferson or not, is the one I feel bad for. She had a taste of freedom & came back to the world of slavery. I think Sally loved Jefferson & knew full well how the public would react to Jefferson. She took a back seat to her children as any good mother would. Also, she took a back seat to the man she loved to keep from ruining his career as a politician. I've had ppl ask me who I'd like to go back in time & chat with. I can think of many but, today I definitly add Sally Hemings to my list. THIS is a woman I'd love to meetings. Maybe I've romanticized this story but, one things for sure, Sally was a strong woman & a loving woman.

@cherierhynes8514

Жыл бұрын

@@blond0075 Are you really certain you wood want to step back into sych sa time? Sally had no voice for herself. Thats never good.

Why doesn't anybody ever admit that Thomas Jefferson sexually abused Sally Hemings? She was a fourteen-year-old girl with no choice except to survive and protect her children.

@stevetim1888

Ай бұрын

FIRST I'VE LEARNED OF THE BRUTALLY ON SUCH A SCALE. NOW MORE THAN EVER, I KNOW THERE IS NO GOD.

@AngelNytnurse

Ай бұрын

He was a predator 💀

A very well made video. I've heard this story before, and find this video an interesting summery.

I’m a descendant of this remarkable women. Her story has been passed down many generations.

@tatianagranger2427

2 жыл бұрын

That is so amazing. How did u find out-dna or word of mouth? If u find out about it through word of mouth I’d love to know what else the family has been sharing about ancestors.

@nadiaddis1145

2 жыл бұрын

WOMAN!! Jeez...singular. WOMEN is plural.

@ChrissyandChaos

2 жыл бұрын

So am I we need to meet. I wonder how many of us are out here in the world

@aprilclark5419

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrissyandChaos that’s amazing I’ve followed this story for so long.I hope you had a Merry Christmas and an even better New Year!!! It was interesting to see this documentary. I would also like to go to Virginia. Did you find that you were a Hemings descendant through DNA?

@lexaneli

2 жыл бұрын

@@nadiaddis1145 get over yourself, you ever heard of grammatical or typing error or someone's first language is not english.

" she could never have imagined , the adventure , her life would become "...............uhmmmmmmmmm , wasn't she a slave............

@keiajones5278

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@tom11zz884

4 жыл бұрын

But she had special privileges over the other slaves a that time.

@mizfrenchtwist

4 жыл бұрын

@@tom11zz884 .....a slave......is still a slave , no matter how you flip it . her life was not , her own.................where is your head at , are you saying , she was " less " of a slave.......................

@kioakamoore3649

4 жыл бұрын

@@mizfrenchtwist Thank you

@CatACor21.

4 жыл бұрын

mizfrenchtwist Right... this is trash 🤦🏽‍♀️

What an awful barter system. She thankfully was able to see her children freed, and she was at least able to live under the care of her freed sons for the last years of her life. She died only nine years after Jefferson, but she was thirty years younger.

Fascinating,I remember when this first came out, Sally sounds like she was a very smart lady.

i just want to hear sally’s story w out it’s being downplayed, sugarcoated and disrespected. she deserved better and her story deserves better.

@NaturalMay

2 жыл бұрын

Real talk

@minnahumble2294

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think it’s sugar coated. There is more than one scene in which the question of whether this relationship was voluntary on her part was considered. I do think she made a mistake when she came back from Paris, instead of staying. She had all the training to make her way in Paris as a domestic, or a dressmaker, the maker of fine linen… I guess she was scared not to go home. She was so young. The reason the producers talk about all the experiences of living in Paris, was not to imply that it was a fun adventure for Sally. It was to show that she was a cultured, educated woman who had received training in crafts and domestic arts.

@thefirstiagree1091

Жыл бұрын

@@minnahumble2294 it is very sugarcoated, she was a young black girl that was taking advantage of sexually, and she didn't have any choices, number one she was very young oh, it did what she had to do with Thomas Jefferson slave owner

@neilnelmar8007

Жыл бұрын

@@thefirstiagree1091 at 14 she would have been considered an adult added to that her status as slave means she was property

@michellemaldonado7853

Жыл бұрын

Actually in the 17th century marriage like between age gaps had existed yeah it’s very disturbing about what happens in the past once which was slavery

Why do they say sex? Its rape. Come on! You think any of these women had real choices???

@montrelouisebohon-harris7023

3 жыл бұрын

It probably was against her will even though the one thing I know about Thomas Jefferson from what I've read is that he was better to his slaves than most. That's still not saying much because slave ownership was monsterous. Sadly, at the time that's the way it was and it was brought over here by the English/ British. Strong-willed and I just can't believe the things just had to be that way because it didn't have to be that way. These rich government figures and Plantation wanted free labor and they had a serious case of narcissism going on. I wish I could have been there to laugh in their faces when they finally had to pay somebody to do the work in their fields. There's nothing that could make up for what those people went through and what the ones went through even at the time that slavery was abolished. I don't know that much about it because my family wasn't into that even though I'm Caucasian and we were country people back then. Ivan Emily didn't even know any of these plantation owners in Virginia. I don't think my family would have approved at all because so many were Nazi like. I cried for two days listening to that audiobook.

@vanprince2287

3 жыл бұрын

no-no

@tamyaevans1631

3 жыл бұрын

They said Sally looked EXACTLY like Martha Jefferson and he was always with her because Sally was Martha half sister and Jefferson knew that. Jefferson rather be “loved” her or not Sally was owned like a dog

@vanprince2287

3 жыл бұрын

@Mixed Knight Fool In Sally's case it was rape because she didn't consent to sex!

@vanprince2287

3 жыл бұрын

@Mixed Knight Fool that is the definition of bullshit love!

So sad that there is no drawing or picture of Sally. Heartbreaking that no one even knows where she was buried

@therealhousewifeofballtown

16 күн бұрын

Her descendants still live so part of her does go on

My favorite story is her grandson story because he would told everyone that was his grandfather and nobody believed him and then it was proved you told the truth !

She probably did what she did to survive..a very strong woman!

@shayhope789

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@tiffanyhooker5160

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@stormstorm7396

Жыл бұрын

Any woman in her right mind will leave before having a slave owner child especially a black woman 🎯 she should of killed her slave owners off springs 👊👊

@stormstorm7396

Жыл бұрын

Y'all sick as fuck to think that 🎯

@lindac6416

Жыл бұрын

Like Jaycee Dugard who is captured by that man and woman ? That make scene . And the three women by Castro !

I was irritated at how they made it seem as if going to France was some amazing adventure or that there were possibly romantic feelings. She was either threatened or didn’t want to abandon her siblings back home. Showing her how life could be and bringing her back to slavery was simply cruel. No one that actually loves someone would do that. Sounds more like continued taking advantage of this young girl and then woman for his own pleasure. She stuck around for the sake of her children who weren’t even recognized by their own father simply to buy their freedom. The only love in this story is the truest love of an amazing mother and horrendous sacrifices made for her children. If he had loved her, there would be a drawing or painting of her somewhere out there.

@kitchenskills5427

3 жыл бұрын

Diane Romanov There is also no mention of him trying to educate her or their children to read or write. His feelings about Blacks was well documented. He thought they were inferior.

@zuwairat

Жыл бұрын

Going to France is still an adventure today. Giving the circumstances of the time she had it better than those who were in the cotton farms

@Wonderer224

Жыл бұрын

@Diane Romanov Very well said!

@DianeRoma1

Жыл бұрын

@@Wonderer224 thank you.

@tonystark3462

Жыл бұрын

YOU MADE GOOD POINTS..... EVEN THOUGH SHOWED EMOTIONS

Poor Sally. Impregnated by a rapist and forced to choose the lesser of two evils. The fact that she maintained any shred of dignity is remarkable. Rest Well Dear Sister 🖤

@lampad4549

11 ай бұрын

Do you have evidence for that? That she was forced into it. Yes she was child but there was no age of consent back then, wouldn't everybody be a child rapist.

@thaobserva

11 ай бұрын

@@lampad4549 I did not call him a child rapist but maybe you are burdened by his behavior as well. The age of consent was different back then but she was his 14 year old mistresses and not his wife. In regards to your question, and I will respond objectively to it, yes there is evidence she was forced. She was his slave. She therefore did not have any say over what this rapist (and he was more than that of course) did to her. If he had “given” Sally her freedom and then propositioned her, she would have had a choice.

@CbsOmegaOmniX

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@thaobserva Our modern understanding of what a teenager/adolescence is didn’t even exist until the early 20th century, if you were old enough to ovulate you were considered a woman. Also she did technically have a chance to make a choice in France but hey I guess you know as much or more about how Sally felt as/than Sally herself. The ignorance or even hubris some people have about this topic never ceases to surprise me. Jefferson was a complicated man of his time but he was not bad, he did more to try and blunt Slavery than most if not all people of his generation did. Thomas Jefferson did not ask to be a slave owner they were dumped on him through inheritance that already had debt tied to it to begin with.

@thaobserva

11 ай бұрын

@@CbsOmegaOmniX Your brief analysis of Jefferson is more emotional than objective but you are right on one point, he was a complicated man. I was not attempting to pigeon hole him. In addition to his unfortunate relations with Sally, he was also a capable statesman, albeit a very shrewd one. What we do know is that Jefferson did not marry his own daughter off to an old man at that age. We are discussing the liberties he took with his 14 year old slave/mistress. Not a 14 year old free woman he married. Sally could have stayed in France? What 14/15 year old is ready to stay in a foreign country and never see their family again?? She was not formally educated so it is reasonable to assume that she was not even fluent in the French language. Thank you for your thoughts though. Dialogue is important.

@brightemerald3924

10 ай бұрын

@@CbsOmegaOmniX And the excuses continue. Jefferson was a hypocrite just as the other authors of the Constitution.

Sally Hemings was a Beautiful Woman. She was brave. She had a interesting love story. Unusual during that time in Our American History. Bless You both President. Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings, Frank

Did this one lady say “there’s something about being a slave that tore at the psyche ... of the self esteem she built up”.... everything about being a slave must tear at the psyche of an individual.

Are u fn kidding me...omg! Did I just hear what I heard! She lived a remarkable life as a slave and mistress.

@safaahmuhammad1250

4 жыл бұрын

They put a remarkable twist on it because no other slave was able to live abroad and experience freedom like she did.And also he freed her children like he said he would!

@Thollis1987

4 жыл бұрын

It is crazy these people talking about being a slave and master were lovers. I called BS!

@safaahmuhammad1250

4 жыл бұрын

@@Thollis1987 Yeah it's crazy alright .However,what could have started out as an outright rape could have in some sick way turned into a love that had conditions on it! If there is such a thing! It's like a parent sexually abusing their child and the child grows up loving the parent because that's the victims parent and then becoming used to the abuse so much that they start calling it love because the victim is told this or thinks it themselves.Mental illness at it's best! That's why the rape of a women and children should be punishable by death! Sally hemings was thinking about her children and their future!Those times were very brutal!

@waltervaught8896

4 жыл бұрын

This is not love by no means.

@patricia-annecockburn9656

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you did...the BULLSHIT, I just can't....I can't!!!!

Sally was such a beautiful and remarkable woman!!!! Sally was a beast!!!! ❤️🦾🦾

I am so disappointed he wasn't affectionate to his children with Sally.

As an American woman, born in Virginia, this story is really very depressing. I followed the story of Sally Hemings as soon as I was old enough to ask questions.

@leslieaday7422

3 жыл бұрын

The story of Sally Hemings is really a tragedy. She had no say concerning anything that she was doing. It makes me feel quite ill. I wish that someone would make a film about her story that was historically true. The founder of this part of the story of the beginning of the United States. Maybe Ken Burns could tell the truth about the role of women in the start of Sally. Isn’t it ironic that the men got together and declared independence, and the women in the story of the start of our American founding, there is very little information about the role of women at all. Oh yes, Betsy Ross sewed 🧵 the first flag. Martha Washington was a very gracious hostess. Dolly Madison invented ice cream. Thank you Dolly, we all scream for ice cream. Wouldn’t it be amazing to actually be there and .......think about it. What would you like to know about the women of colonial America. To be continued...

@alphabogeyman7462

3 жыл бұрын

@@leslieaday7422 It also shows how much men could control their sexual urges in those days. A mixed race child who looks exactly like his mother's white master is very suspicious.

@lindaroane3344

3 жыл бұрын

A mini series was on television in 2000 about sally called, Sally Henson: An American scandal.

@claudiabottom4086

2 жыл бұрын

Women didn’t have many choices.

@chris-acf9031

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for calling a spade a spade ♠️

Why are they calling this shit a love story???

@josieber8032

4 жыл бұрын

They said we don't know how Sally Hemings felt and are you saying that nothing good or adventurous could have happened to her because Sally was a slave. I think you are sell her short.

@ataisjafloyd1428

4 жыл бұрын

@@josieber8032 nigga where you ever a slave? What is so adventurous about being raped, slaughtered, sold, and killed? Are you even black?

@josieber8032

4 жыл бұрын

@@ataisjafloyd1428 Were you a slave I think not

@ataisjafloyd1428

4 жыл бұрын

@@josieber8032 yes i was not a slave. But I am black and my ancestors where slaves.

What a wonderful piece of knowledge to know ‼️🙏🏽

Sally Hemmings was nothing more than just one of Thomas Jefferson's many victims.

*I don’t think that they mean it but this documentary is really offensive.*

@priyachand2697

3 жыл бұрын

Sis, they know EXACTLY what they're doing. They stay romanticizing the history created off the backs of people that built this place as if they didn't face the atrocities of white hands.

@reyn_rock80srantsrealtalk

3 жыл бұрын

They absolutely mean it. They were hoping you weren't smart enough to see through this bullshit.

@queenteireigns6212

3 жыл бұрын

It is offensive. I'm sure she hated him I wish she would've stayed in Paris. Then instead of saying free he had them as runaways

@cecilbrasfield8070

3 жыл бұрын

Not to me it's not . She had a choice when she was free in Paris. She wasn't even suppose to go to Paris but the one that was suppose to go got sick .Many women were even getting married even younger then her . In middle East they even get married at 13. 14. Even in the 17 and 18th century they were marrying at 13.

@cecilbrasfield8070

3 жыл бұрын

Whites bread out the wide noses,big lips and real dark skin.

How tf did they gloss over her being the same age as his daughter? The mental gymnastics they must have gone through to make this relationship seem anything other than predatory and exploitative.

@zilcaparker6089

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not a new concept of men falling for or using younger women...

@tammeydavis9750

2 жыл бұрын

@@zilcaparker6089 doesn’t make it okay also this isn’t a simple oh it the time period SHE WAS OWNED and like raped by him

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

It was legal then ,it was normal them ,you are looking at the issue thrown modern lenses,which is nonsensical

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

@@tammeydavis9750 but it was legal then

@tammeydavis9750

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilnelmar8007 actually slavery was always a topic of discussion and was constantly debated even back then it's not nonsensical its WRONG that why there were people against it back then as well.but many saw it as a “necessary evil” so to say it was just the time period would be a cheap cop out because regardless of time period human psychological remains that same

This was a fantastic story. I loved it and shared it. Thanks so much. 🙏🏻‼️🇺🇸. Sally was exceptional.

So, literally Ms. Sally was the FIRST LADY🤩😁. HOW WONDERFUL!!!

How the hell do you "INHERIT" a damn human being👀 smh

@MzDon-ko2yu

4 жыл бұрын

My point EXACTLY

@beautifularrayindigenousqu6011

4 жыл бұрын

Carolynska S You’re sick and pathetic and your old age, devil!!!! N for the record, just cause one my believe it’s normal or custom doesn’t make it right!!!!!!!

@gigiw.7650

4 жыл бұрын

Selena Grinage How does one man own another body and soul? 🤷‍♀️

@putheflamesoutyahoo1503

4 жыл бұрын

​@Carolynska S Also look at The Venus Project money-less society. Lab rats kill themselves flipping a lever in response to getting a dopamine stimulation, much same as money. Many like The Queen are remarkable trying to get to truth in a brainwashed world. J Fresco said "comm and tech" will change the world. We are at the age of Irony, Disruption, Nothingness, Truth and the final test, Infinity if we make it. ALL is feasible but evil money stands in the way of extreme human advancement.

@lillanthompson9086

4 жыл бұрын

Damn right crazy. EVIL people and still are

If Jefferson really loved Sally he would have left her in France where she was free

@michellewalker803

3 жыл бұрын

More 2 that im her granddaughter Im

@painintheknee1209

3 жыл бұрын

I think she would have stayed in France if she didn’t really love him.

@deandreway9682

3 жыл бұрын

pain in the knee it wasn’t organic love

@suberinacooperjohnson6544

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@Archas1000

3 жыл бұрын

She decided not to stay in France, that was her decision not his.

Sally did not give her freedom for her kids' freedom. She gave up her freedom to be with Thomas. Her children were not in existence when she made the decision to return to America. She could've stayed in Paris and her kids would've been free by default. The bottom line is, Thomas tricked her into coming back.

I felt very emotional watching this Sally Hemings Documentary. I can not imagine what they have went thru living as slaves especially Black during that era, MUST BEEN A VERY , VERY HARD LIFE . It Sooo SAD 😢

How could they refer to SALLY AS A MISTRESS??!!!! How dare??!!!!!

@a.d.mitchell2613

3 жыл бұрын

You don't know the reason they saying that because he's a white man and the president that's why they trying to clean up after him after his one big mess

@aririariribo6989

3 жыл бұрын

I know right! To not call her a victim of his abuse is one thing, but a mistress?!

@lorenluxe8816

3 жыл бұрын

So true

@mckayfam3090

2 жыл бұрын

This story telling is absolutely disgusting. She did not have a choice, she was an owned child slave. There is the difference.

@jeffmode6526

2 жыл бұрын

Sally became a concubine. How can you make a mistress out of a teenage girl.

This “documentary” is entirely too white.

@howiseeit5129

3 жыл бұрын

Sally was mainly white!!

@jeanettewaverly2590

3 жыл бұрын

I think some folks are missing the point of my comment.

@WomenSense1

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!😫😤🤮

@jeanettewaverly2590

3 жыл бұрын

Peggy liz As I commented, above, it seems that some of you completely miss the point of my original observation.

@shantelane2553

3 жыл бұрын

She’s talking about the “Love story” and “white washing” about a grown man raping a child! A child he owned. This isn’t a love story at all.

How terrible that the children grew up apart from their families. How must those mother's have felt.

@chalayneireland

3 күн бұрын

I would like to see the move

@chalayneireland

3 күн бұрын

Like to see a black vsrson

History (the past) cannot be changed, nor is it impossible or unheard of for people to love (even in taboo conditions)... It is very possible that they loved each other. Hopefully it was after her 16th birthday. He courted her and she trusted (& loved) him ... DNA proofs the lineage. Their love endured many challenges - sad that his children did not feel his "love". "Runaways" were most likely the best ge could do as a politician shaping freedom for more "enslaved" people in the future. Mighty respect for Sally: she was definitely a strong, honorable woman. Very sad that Jefferson did not give her, her freedom.

There was no record of the first child because they probably sold that baby off and covered his back. SMH...

@natv55

3 жыл бұрын

They said here that the child died soon after birth

@shantejamison3378

3 жыл бұрын

I think that although it was wrong - slavery f it is over than we should rise above it don't act like we still live in those times of slavery.

@natasha90s46

3 жыл бұрын

@@shantejamison3378 yes! absolutely we should rise above it. but it's history it's in the books and now on the internet for everybody to see, and therefore you are entitled to your own opinion.

Sally made the best of the situation she was in. She had the good sense to get Jefferson to free her children. It doesn't matter to me if they loved each other or not. The fact that her children were free is everything.

@Morbing_Time

Жыл бұрын

I dont think it's that amazing, the children and Sally should never been slaves in the first place.

@sakurakou2009

Жыл бұрын

@@Morbing_Time you can't judge their time with today's value

@DarkNJuju

Жыл бұрын

@@sakurakou2009 Yes you can. Morals do not change with time.

@cherierhynes8514

Жыл бұрын

I agree it was the most Sally could hope for. But it wasnt everything as it wadnt everyone. I feel for Sally. Every human yearns to be free ir she wouldnt have sacrifuces to get the best offer rather than saying guarantee of her childrens freedom.

@naomidoner9803

Жыл бұрын

Their children 👍

Really enjoyed this! I've just discovered the story about the Zong slave ship that sailed from England. Look it up. It's the case that started them on the road away from slavery. Very interesting.

I have always been fascinated by Sally Hemings.

Baby yall are tearing them up in these comments. lololololololololol

@JereeAnderson

4 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭 I’m reading them faster than watching this video. 😂

@infinitepossibilities356

4 жыл бұрын

Right!😂

@florinebond6789

4 жыл бұрын

Just telling the truth keeping it real

@ji5073

4 жыл бұрын

A lot hate filled rhetoric towards white men....get off chest now

@htownfan87

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just here for the comments cuz babeeeeeeeee y'all going in 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

I don't know how many others caught it, but it is brought out that Sally Hemings was a younger 1/2 sister to Martha Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson.

@jeanniebee61

3 жыл бұрын

Darcie Jones, yes they made that clear several times, so there could have possibly been a closeness already with Martha and Sally as 1/2-siblings.

@annoneill8800

2 жыл бұрын

He was not a good man

This was an amazing documentary. Good job!

I don’t think Sally ever quietly accepted her fate as a slave.. she knew that she was More than that.. and she was so smart and I so wish that she had left journals, a diary, anything.. I wonder what their conversations were like.. he apparently trusted her, very much, to entrust his children to her care and upbringing.. I’m so disappointed that he didn’t free her after his death.. I can’t find a good reason Why he didnt. At least he kept his word about their children. And, that is what mattered most to her❤️❤️

This is NOT a love story ! It’s not like she could have denied him when he came demanding sex. She was a SLAVE and he was her master. There is no “love” in that. There is no “mutual respect” in that. Yes, he freed her children eventually but he kept her enslaved. Where is the love and mutual respect in that ? Smh.

@cecilbrasfield8070

3 жыл бұрын

She was not a slave at that time . She got pregnant in Paris as a free women .

@tamyaevans1631

3 жыл бұрын

This whole situation is just insane but one thing we do no is that Jefferson did keep her and all of her family together because they were half white and let’s just say Jefferson did fall in love with Sally (because it’s said that Sally looked exactly like Martha Jefferson because they were half sisters) in that time era you can’t marry your slave and people can’t find out about situations like that when the owner had “sex” with his slave even tho most slave owners did that. Sally isn’t alone obvious to tell us how she really felt but Heaven has got her now

@elliedavis4744

3 жыл бұрын

@@cecilbrasfield8070 she was raped,you do know that right????? She was raped before she got pregnant,smh

@emilystaff9626

3 жыл бұрын

@@cecilbrasfield8070 she was a slave he groomed her and raped her when she was a child enslaved

@upsidedown584

3 жыл бұрын

There’s no doubt in my mind that she thought she loved him. The age of consent back then was 12 depending on what state you were in. So by their own laws, he wasn’t a pedophile. They didn’t have the same laws and morals that we have today. Now we know better.

I'm just putting myself in Sally's shoes. 1st these children who are her "masters" are actually her neice and nephews. And Jefferson is actually her brother in law. The whole thing is very insestuest. And I cant imagine going from being free in France and back to be a slave in the us. What a culture shock and change. What a brave women she truly was!

We Chinese, Japanese, Irish, or even English people had all been enslaved at one period of time in history. In fact, slavery still exits today in every corner of the world.

Fantastic video

Im so SICK of white ppl telling our history im so sick of seeing "slave" movies smh even in the new harriette tubman movie they just had to insert a "white" hero within the script smh

@NicoleP36

4 жыл бұрын

Selena Grinage Right

@larrybranchii

4 жыл бұрын

White washing, per usual in Hollywood.

@ohshootbang541

4 жыл бұрын

This isn't your story. You were never a slave. Those people were strong willed and would tell blacks today to stop stealing their story like it was yours. Those people could only dream of living the life you live today. Stop acting like you have any idea what those people went through back then. And just to remind you her own family told the story. Did u not watch this at all?

@msladyday99

4 жыл бұрын

Selena Grinage there was no white hero in the Harriett movie. Just giving information.

@msladyday99

4 жыл бұрын

@Oh shoot Bang you have step outside your mind thinking we don’t have any idea of what our great and grandparents went through. Their lives was shared among the family and those event continued to be passed down. That why we know more about our history then you would think. You also sound crazy talking about the life we live now. Yes it better than being in physical bondage but don’t get it twisted it not that much better. We are still enslaved through our education, finance, housing, law enforcement, etc.

Absolutely disgusting that he took advantage of Sally. Slavery of any type comes from the pits of hell.

@dust1ification

Жыл бұрын

Slavery was a part of nearly every people group. There were many black people who owned slaves in the U.S. If you haven't watched the PBS series "Finding Your Roots" you should. Very eye opening.

@Morbing_Time

Жыл бұрын

@@dust1ification And? Every nation has murderers, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

@kardon4996

Жыл бұрын

Well put ! Grown man takes 14 years old ....and he is not good looking AT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!.......

@thezu9250

Жыл бұрын

@@dust1ification Weird how people always wanna scream that very few white people owned slaves yet now somehow “many” Black people are owned slaves. The black slave owners were noted for being exceptions. The average person couldn’t afford a slave. Yet somehow many black people in the US had them? It’s absolutely disgusting how this is a new misinformation tactic that I see in every single video discussing slavery.

@thezu9250

Жыл бұрын

@@dust1ification Just because some places in the world practiced slavery doesnt mean that every single version was the same. Many of them were not heritable states. You weren’t born a slave. Stop justifying racism in a so-called advanced society. Even in that time, being with a 14-year-old when you were in your 40s unmarried was considered morally wrong.

Definitely sally Hemings was a beautiful woman.

This story shows us as black women how strong we are and what we will do and go through within our life. Keeping and maintaining our dignity and strength. We and I say WE as black American Females are strong no matter what struggles we go through we make it. Beautifully as we are this is how others view us but as we still strive they cannot. will not and be like us although they try. I'm proud to be a black beautiful woman like Sally.

The historian said that slaves actually "did fall in love with their masters," and that "to say that Sally had no feelings for Jefferson, is to say that an enslaved person could not love." Um no, that's ridiculous, and an attempt to make Jefferson look attractive and benevolent while toying with Ms. Hemings' legacy. Slaves could absolutely love. It's just that when slave masters saw black men and women together, there were very quick and efficient at breaking up families and marriages, and selling off children to destroy the family unit. When they, their mothers, sisters and daughters weren't being brutally raped themselves, black women had to witness their men, brothers, fathers and sons being whipped, maimed, castrated and murdered by slave masters and overseers. Ms. Hemings' molestation and rape by Thomas Jefferson began when she was only 14. She was owned, and therefore did not have the maturity nor the choice of developing a love for him. For all that she endured at the hands of this pedophile, her blood cries out to us to not let her story be misrepresented today, as it has been in movies and documentaries like this one.

@moniqueroberts5523

3 жыл бұрын

Enslavement is a clear sign of hate. He never loved her, African blood flowed through her veins. She and all their children were slaves. He hated them all. You can't strattle the fence and love your slave that you refuse to set free, instead of letting them go as a sign of love, But place terms and conditions on her freedom.

@brwynn

3 жыл бұрын

I Yo jhuhhy

@RandomBeing101

2 жыл бұрын

@@moniqueroberts5523 Are you reaply sure about that?

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

Point me to the law of the time that says their relationship was rape and abusive ,.educate me please as to how rape was define at the time

@shannel3146

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilnelmar8007 that's sick. Rape doesn't have to be legally acknowledged to be considered wrong. If there's no consent, if one of them is unwilling, that's rape.

If Sally was alive, she would be screaming “#me too”

@olajuwonwilliams1575

3 жыл бұрын

Facts####Facts wtf is this bull shit Rape/pedophile

@restezlameme

3 жыл бұрын

Dude you're completely missing the point. She wasn't old enough or mature enough to make those decisions properly... Older men convince young besotted girls to do crazy--even illegal--things all the time. Even if she had feelings for him, he took terrible advantage of it, every second single day, for the rest of his days.

@carolporter3831

3 жыл бұрын

It was RAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

@@olajuwonwilliams1575 haha hahs she couldn't

@neilnelmar8007

2 жыл бұрын

@@restezlamemewhat was the age of consent at the time and how was law define?

Smh. So young poor girl. There wasn't slavery in Paris but he still treated her as property. A young girl at 15 should NOT EVER have to be kept against her will... slavery is evil.

I can't imagine there were not pictures❣️

inheritance? he inherited a slave?????? disturbing

@TheMorganVEVO

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. That’s how many people ended up with slaves. I think Abraham Lincoln also inherited some slaves after he married Mary Todd. Slaves were a part of the economic system, just like any other kind of property or livestock.

@adrianchristian5351

4 жыл бұрын

He inherited slave from his farther? which doesnt make since..

@yougotta2505

4 жыл бұрын

@liseg89 thanks ♥️

@Nina5144

4 жыл бұрын

You obviously don’t know your history. Thank goodness this dreadful practice was abolished

@Nina5144

4 жыл бұрын

You need to learn the history of the slave trade

It’s insane how a person can romanticize this situation. Implying that she she may have been in love with him is incredulous. She was not a free woman, sorry CHILD. Absolutely sick and it gets even sicker today with folks trying to spark up some kind of twisted fantasy

@Jgx120

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. It absolutely is disgusting how they are describing this as consensual. In no way was it or will ever be she was a child born into slavery taught to always listen to their abuser. She kept quiet because she was a slave. She was coerced back to VA with lies. She was an innocent child taken advantage of. She was most likely groomed. F ThomasJ

@playablue

Жыл бұрын

@@ursamajor6347 it’s called w.. supremacy

@Coraleena

Жыл бұрын

It's more palatable to many Caucasians to think of it as a love story, instead of the truth, which was that a white slave master impregnated a child through rape.

@TheDaanishh3

Жыл бұрын

💯! He took his lordship over her to the grave by not freeing her after his death. This story is cruel and the way it was narrated was repugnant.

@connerwhite5351

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDaanishh3 agreed!

What a well done documentary the historical accuracy must me applauded! The question of love between Jefferson and Sally is muted by how all marriages during that time period and Jefferson’s social class are transactional! His marriage to Sally’s half sister was just that and resulted in a deep and abiding love! Sally’s relationship with Jefferson was mostly transactional in the beginning no doubt because she said she would stay in Paris and not go home without the agreement she wanted! Make no mistake SHE HAD THE POWER OF A WOMAN ! Jefferson knew he risk all with the relationship no doubt about his feelings! One of American historys most amazing stories! Thanks to all involved in producing this, and particularly Annette Gordon - Reed author of THE HEMINGES of MONTICELLO a must read for anyone interested in Jefferson.

@ElizabethBrondwajn

Жыл бұрын

7th 8 I 7th

What an extraordinary experience for Sally, especially considering in America she was a slave but in Paris she got to live as a free woman not something a slave would dream of being a reality ❤❤