The Hemingses of Monticello, Part 2

Annette Gordon-Reed talks about her new book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, and answers questions at Monticello's Jefferson Library. This section: the origins of the Hemings family and their move to Monticello; James and Sally Hemings go to Paris, France

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[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.

[Moionfire]

No, I am black, and sometimes the speaker sounds like Oprah...

[misteeq64]

Their were no slaves in france of course not all their babaric slavery where going on in the west indies .Haiti guadeloupe etc etc .

[supaAssasin2010]

yeah right do you say that about every black woman ?

[josbo51713]

she sounds like oprah

[whatcharlesisreading]

Excellent.