Thomas Jefferson & his Slave Romance

[Cainefan]

He didn't "start raping his slaves". He certainly fathered Sally's children. But she's the only slave he was ever known to be with. In fact, Sally was really the only woman he was known to be with since Martha died. Whether it was rape depends upon Sally's own views of the subject. She appears to have never been with anyone since Jefferson and, according to her own family, tended his grave until her death. I think there were some genuine feelings between the two.

[SittingBullswar]

Thomas Jefferson was a rapist plan and simple. He started raping his slaves at an early age. Sally Hemmings had a her first child for him at the age of 13.

[TheJbach]

Check out: William Hylandn, In Defense of Thomas Jefferson on You Tube! Bet you start to see the light!

[TheJbach]

Say! Listen, young people! LISTEN!! Jefferson was a GREAT MAN!! You are being so hurtfully misled! The DNA evidence indicates a Jefferson male ONLY!! Now, the FACT is that it was not Thomas Jefferson who fathered ANY children with Sally! His brother Randolph OR nephew, Carr, are the most likely subjects.... many, many people came and went every day year round at Monticello, and they had access to the plantation and its inmates. This rumor is 200 years old! Please don't fall prey to it!!

[takenbythesky]

you never thought about black people living as white they say 30 percent of wht americans have black ancestry through slavery but i think it i s much more , also 90 percent of those whts with blk ancestry through slavery come from the southern usa

[thesunsetshere]

You have an interesting perspective. There is no way of telling whose what these days. I kinda likethat. I call that the cosmic joke. Because skin is skin, you can't be a good racist if you can't disect your pedigree. :)

[Beesahili]

He wasn't the only one thatwas guilty of perpetual rape!They all did it.Time doesn't clear awayguilt.Accepting guilt and asking for forgiveness probabily will.I am a man&I can tell u that men barely care about the race of women.Social-correctness,econo­mic&political power legitimate racism&discrimination to ensure success without guilt.Check slaveship logbooks in museums archives!EvenPastors kept their own selected exoticAfricangirls apart!Most became pregnant on arrival.None of themwas a saint!

[dshernic]

This is a NAZI title, Her name was SALLY HEMING. And by the way aaallll human kind come from Africa.So yes you do have African blood.And I'm white , STOP BEING IGNORANT!! I CAN SEE WHY YOUR JALOUS OF AFRICAN LOOK AT YOU!!!

[gangstaboo62]

@dshernic Yes! Preach that truth!  PREACH!!!! It's kinda sad 4 ppl 2 count the amount of "black" blood in a person when there's no such thing as "race". we're only one race,...the Human race!!!

[APGifts]

Hemings was NOT Black NOR even seen as Black.

The racist One-Drop Rule did NOT exist then & she was

NOT enslaved due to having ANY amounts of "black" blood.

She was a slave due to her "matriliny" having been "chattel".

Contrary to MYTH, U.S. slavery was NOT a "color" (or 'race') issue.

It was a "mother" or (matriliny) issue.

If your mother (no matter her "race") was "chattel" -- so were you.

Most U.S. slaves were Mixed-Race, NOT Black - as

"breeding" (via rape) was cheaper than 'buying'.

[98bigbutt]

@gangstaboo62,Humans are a species not a race.Race=divide and conquer. Remember that.

[APGifts]

@bbgurl22ful

Hemings was the half-sister of Jefferson's dead wife.

[Heming's mother had been enslaved / regularly

sexually assaulted by Jefferson's father-in-law.]

Hemings (like Mariah Carey, Wentworth Miller, etc.)

was only 1/4 Black; looked "fully-White" (white skin,

gray eyes; light brown hair) AND was the look-alike

half-sister of Jefferson's wife (who died fairly young).

Jefferson began "eyeing" Hemings when she was ONLY

10 years old and 1st assaulted her when she was 12.

[bbgurl22ful]

@APGifts dude NO ONE CARES. Get a life!!!!

[cedricrlongreen]

This is super interesting info.

[georgiannmilan]

This is completely disgusting!...So stupid...So ignorant!

[msmelody1960]

what a hipocrate jefferson was using his father inlaw's rape of another women as an exuse to rape sally!

[msmelody1960]

RAPE IS RAPE!!SIMPLE AS THAT.

[MISS12409]

Well i think he did sexual abused her she being so young in her mind im sure it when from an old man having sex with her to a man making love to her and i am more then sure she had benefits because in his mind like in hers she was his lover

and no matter how outlandish it sounds today back then they didn't know what a predator was and how to beware an ( IF YOU TAKE OUT STATUS AND REACE ) its really that simple

[APGifts]

@MISS12409

He did NOT "make love to" her -- HE RAPED HER!

He had ALL THE POWER -- she had none.

He was a free adult -- she was an enslaved child.

No true "choices" were presented to Hemings.

[MISS12409]

Well i think he did sexual abused her she being so young in her mind im sure it when from an old man having sex with her to a man making love to her and i am more then sure she had benefits because in his mind like in hers she was his lover

and no matter how outlandish it sounds today back then they didn't know what a predator was and how to beware an ( IF YOU TAKE OUT STATUS AND REACE ) its really that simple

[giftofyah]

Is this a romance novel? Please! she had to do what was needed to survive; She didn't want that pedofile, with his nasty looking self; Not every black woman wanted a nasty white man then or in fact now!. He was a f---ing hyprocirte! He shouldn't been inpeached;

[APGifts]

Hemings was NOT a Black (or even a Mulatto) woman.

HOLLYWOOD loves to LIE that Hemings was...1) Jefferson's "mistress" who "seduced" / manipulated him (when she was actually his Rape-victim); 2) an older teen or adult (when she as actually 12 years old) when he first began his sexual assaults on / exploitation of her; & 3) that she was a brown-skinned Mulatto (when she was actually a White-skinned Quadroon & the One Drop Rule did NOT exist then so she was also NOT seen as being Black either).

[APGifts]

IT WAS NOT A "ROMANCE"! HEMINGS (a white-skin, brown-hair, grey-eyed Quadroon, look-alike half-sister of Jefferson's dead wife) WAS A 12 YEAR OLD ENSLAVED GIRL WHEN JEFFERSON 1st SEXUALLY ABUSED her. He even had a room built off his bedroom that he kept her LOCKED IN at night & also enslaved the Octoroon kids she had by him (although a few ran away w/o being hunted down by him) Locking up a 12 year old CHILD for use of sexual abuse & exploitation is NOT a "ROMANCE" -- IT IS CALLED RAPE.

[sweetgyy]

@APGifts thomas jefferson was well hung ! lol

[starRavenCraft]

@APGifts omg is that true ? thats so aweful, one of my mother's friend just told me that her grandmother was raped by a white person resulting in her biracial mother, its very sad

[vivecarocks]

I find it funny and ignorant that *some* of the people who've posted on this video do not know or DENY the story of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. This is history...American history.

[brianstruble]

Where are you coming up with you information?

[Thatdudeathome]

The white men that had affairs with slaves had those kids, just to sell them to make a profit. That's why most slave owners never took care of those kids. Jefferson also owned more than 200 black and mulatto slaves.

Every year approximately 10 black women get harassed by white men. While almost 9,000-10,000 white women get harassed by black men!

Also mudsharks, are breeding with black men destroying their gene pool.

At least Jefferson was heading in the right direction! Europeanize

[LadyLuv100]

I don't know where you get your figures from but they are way off the mark. Where do you live, the north pole? Many more white men try it on with black women but because a high percentage of black women prefer their black men, white men don't get a look in most of the time. Also, 9,000-10,000 white women harrass black men not the other way around! Don't get it twisted now.

[NinjaChampionKO]

@LadyLuv100

Lol.....

Ugly black sex-slaves were too fat to be fun in bed so he decided to own hundreds to have some more variety...

I feel sorry for Jefferson......

[jb26508]

Is she using dolls?

[fantushinka]

History is not for amateurs. This person is a nutjob. Full of platitudes and overflowing with inaccuracies. PLEASE ignore!

[josephortizgarcia]

Some of you whites should truly be ashamed to tell this story of black suffering. Fuck Jefferson and any other motherfucker who had my people in bondage. I guess you might imagine my hero would be Mr. Nat Turner. Peace be upon him, forever.

[TiaIng8]

Sick man, poor black women during those day's, the Koran was written to keep a certain group to stay in there place,which happens to be black people look to up before you make stupid comment's dindong.

[josephortizgarcia]

Timray99 You are a crazy motherfucker.

[khalilahinjapan]

I hope Thomas Jefferson is burning right now for raping Sally. THere was no way for her to say no cause he was white, a man of power...and if she had said no, maybe she would have been sold off or worse. Most Black people are the fruits of rape from slavery...including my family and I.

[greatbydesign33]

timray99 - You are such a Dumb Fuck. White men were NOTORIOUS for raping black women in those days. That was common behavior for them. You are such a dumb Jack Ass timray99.

[HardBodyNyC]

z0mg but you should have read the KORAN!

[APGifts]

@greatbydesign33 Correct! Forcible rape, sexual assault & sexual exploitation -- by plantation owners (& especially by overseers) against enslaved people of both genders -- was a very common practice used in the antebellum chattel-slavery era to create terror-based fear Sally Hemings, however, was NOT a Black enslaved person -- she was a Quadroon enslaved person Like most enslaved-people of any race/gender, sexual-terror & exploitation was used against her from childhood-on...by her captor

[APGifts]

@greatbydesign33

Let's NOT forget that the enslaved MEN were both raped and sodomized just as often as were the enslaved women.

The only difference was that the men could not / did not become impregnated as a result of the rapes.

Throughout history, rape has been used as a tool of oppression groups (no matter their gender, age or race).

[shazam15]

the movie where the pictures are from was really really good.

[ttheleatherman]

he was a rapist no matter how u cut she was a kid he started sleeping with her at 12 it didn't start at 15 wake up think a slave had no say so in the matter how sad you to try to make sense of the whole thing all you need to know is she was a slave no matter how lite they where still a slave

[atlanticl]

@ttheleatherman As far as age is concerned, the issues of "morality" came about ~ the 20th century. Age was not the issue when it come to sexuality pre-20th century. I at the same time also conclude that we consist of both CONTROL and FREEDOM, like a POSITIVE PROTON and NEGATIVE ELECTRON, and a NEUTRON.

[atlanticl]

@atlanticl this would explain his diligence in working for an "independent" state.

[oldieschick6]

What a bunch of fecal matter! Thomas Jefferson was of high moral character. The character of the founding fathers have been attacked by those corrupt people who are in control of the world and who want to enslave you. Wake up!

[Steadno]

Some of his kids look Greek/Italian. I wonder if this was how it happened back in the ancient days. Maybe an Ethiopian and Hittite admixture.

[Steadno]

Then Thomas Jefferson enslaved his own children. SICK!

[shazam15]

It was the time. Dont judge.

[Steadno]

holocaust was 'the time' too, dont judge.

[shazam15]

No, you idiot. I was referring to their relationship, not the whole of slavery! what kind of person would excuse that?!

[Steadno]

i dont care about mixing, i'm mixed. in their case though jefferson forced her to do it cause she was his slave. sick sick sick!

[APGifts]

@shazam15 IT WAS 'RAPE" It was NOT a "relationship" As a young, enslaved CHILD (despite having white skin, gray eyes, brown hair) HEMINGS HAD NO CHOICE in the sexual exploitation of/assault on her sexual/reproductive organs To minimize, justify or excuse his exploitation of this enslaved person is as bad as excusing/ justifying any of the forms of enslavement Hemings life was more akin to that of the kids in today's 3rd-world-child-brothels & no one would say "don't judge" in those cases

[shazam15]

@APGifts

Chill. Seriously, chill.

[sierria64]

@APGifts yes it was rape

[fleurgi]

do u really think that is a good excuse for the deaths of millions in either cases. it may have been "the time" i get that but that is not good enough. humanity in my opinion hs no bounds no matter what era it happened in. i still see injustice.. the same goes for any inhumane treatment of ppl not just slavery or the holocaust. and what would u say to those neo nazi groups and ppl who still believe that blacks r inferior in the present time?

[fleurgi]

@Steadno he probably didn't even acknowledge them as his children

[Steadno]

@fleurgi even worse if true!

[jlk1331]

damn u look good in that top......i just wish u stood up

[Commentarian1]

Of further interest would be the well documented story of Henry Moss, a freeborn black man of that same era, who turned completely "white" (including hair texture) at the age of 38. By all accounts, no splotching occurred. Several colonial parish registers predating the American Revolution reveal selective baptism among "negros" who, consequently, were not yet referred to as "slaves". It's obvious this phenomena was once more accepted than we now tend to theorize.

[misteeq64]

Talk about total hypocrite that Thomas Jefferson

[supaAssasin2010]

I have to get this movie

[APGifts]

@supaAssasin2010 The miniseries 'Jefferson in Paris' sucks They cast a much too-old, much too-dark (eyes, hair, skin) Mulatto (Thandie Newton) to play the role of Sally Hemings, a 12-year old, very fair-complexioned Quadroon. In addition, the screen play has Hemings (who again would have been a fearful 12 year old) as "the seductress" of "poor, helpless Jefferson" The disgusting role-reversed/dark-seductress false portrayal of Jefferson's sexual-abuse of Hemings ruined the whole miniseries

[IzzyForeva1996]

wtf?

[Xelanderthomas]

Yeah, you kind a look like you could a sista to me... ;-)

[vitalfinds]

LOL!  ;-)

[yak6ex]

Are you a professor and why are you reading this on youtube?

P.S

Thank you.

[yak6ex]

Who is this at 7:24?

[DynaCatlovesme]

I believe the DNA analysis of Sally Hemmings' descendants indicated that they were not also descendants of Thomas Jefferson, but it's been long enough, and I was disinterested enough to be unsure. I suppose a few minutes of Googling would clear it up.

[Socksee]

that was really interesting .. thanks!

[schoolmaster1945]

yowser!!...looking good!...regards...

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!