Very interesting. I had no idea. Thanks

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

Well... at least we know that scandals in government go back to the start of government! 😂 Great Video as Always! Can Do!

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

Lol…that is true. Thank you 😊

Two wrongs don’t equals to a positive result. Interesting story. I didn’t know. Love a good gossip. 😂 TY Jenn. Cheers y’all.

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

So true! Definitely an interesting story.

How disturbing that this stuff was going on way back then. In my years of school, the lessons we learned about the Presidents were cleaned up. We learned the noble side of the story. I guess human beings have always been selfish and deceitful. So sad.

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yes…people don’t change too much…but at least we can learn from the past (hopefully) 😊

haven't been a Hamilton fan since reading Gore Vidal's Burr ...

@WalkwithHistory

3 ай бұрын

We had a Burr Historian on the show talking about that book too.

Wow! What an interesting story. BTW, I love "Drunk History". Politics has always been so ruthless. Was it Calendar whom famous claimed John Adams was a Hemaphrodite?

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Good memory, after Jefferson hired the journalist James Thomson Callender to write unpleasant things about his opponent. Callender set to his task with gusto, and published an attack on Adams which stated that he was “a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, not the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

I was unaware how the Jefferson/Hemmings affair came to light but now I know we have Callender to thank for that.. What I would like to know is why that affair didn't bring down Jefferson. Hemmings was about 15 when the affair began she was 16 when she gave birth to the first of six children fathered by Jefferson. On top of that she was a slave and the icing on the cake was she was Martha Jefferson's half sister.. I understand Hemmings had no legal status and everything to lose by announcing Jefferson was the father of her children. There were no paternity tests, no way to prove who the father was. So I can understand how Jefferson could deny any allegations by Callender. Would I'd like to know how were affairs between slaves and masters viewed during that time period. Was there any stigma attached to it whatsoever? Or did people just look the other way? Something that was just accepted without a second thought.

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

Affairs between slaves and masters at the time where unfortunately the norm. In Mississippi, most enslaved children were from a white father and a black mother. But most of these relationships were not an “affair” like the Jefferson/Hemings affair, they were forced assaults. Hemings had more “agency” that that and because of that it is called an affair. Even though Hemings was enslaved, she was with Jefferson in Paris when the relationship allegedly began and she became pregnant. In Paris, Hemings would be considered free, so for her to agree to come back to America with Jefferson she negotiated her children’s freedom when they turned 18. People did look the other way. “What happens on a Plantation stays on the Plantation.” But it was another thing to call out such affairs in the public, to acknowledge that kind of improper sexual secrecy. However, for Jefferson to ignore it, made it look like a complete lie that he didn’t have to make sure the press knew the truth, because there was no truth to it and people bought it.

What did you learn in this video that you didn't know before?

@Chevyguy-Ray

Жыл бұрын

Gossip goes way back to the beginnings of our great nation. I never knew of the gentleman who was a gossip until now.

@daegudiva

Жыл бұрын

Cancel culture goes way back.

@WalkwithHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@daegudiva yes it does. hopefully we can learn from past examples

@barbarak2836

Жыл бұрын

@@WalkwithHistory Well, we haven't learned yet!

@TribeTaz

2 ай бұрын

Gossip goes back that far. I had no idea who this guy was until your video.