Watch authors Jane Feldman & Shannon LaNier (of Jefferson's Children; The Story Of One American Family) on ABC's Here & Now
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@jotaann91734 жыл бұрын
Beautiful and incredible unity of family. 🙏🏼
@javajive014 жыл бұрын
No, it's the story of rape, chattel slavery, and abuse. Jefferson was a monster.
@kapatip99364 жыл бұрын
I love Sally, courageous & kept going. She was a slave. Beautiful lady
@robertahartley14 жыл бұрын
Thomas would be proud of Shannon...he's adorable and all of his relatives...
@dorisfowler55022 жыл бұрын
I knew that I had a black ancestor since I was a little girl. But, I learned about my native American ancestry when I was 15, nut my mother didn't want me to tell anyone. It wasn't toll years later that I understood why. My mother was born in 1910, and that was the year the last slave ship departed from the US with Native Americans. She was afraid. I knew about the former slave because I found out her name in the family bible. Her name was Mehitable. I learned years later that she came from Ghana because I have a hole on my ear. That is the only place that birthmark comes from. I have always been proud of my ancestry, because they are within me, and, because of them I am who I am, and I am glad, I inherited the traits that I have to go forward in my life, even when things were hard. S .
@foodtechbuddies9115 жыл бұрын
it is not Jefferson and Hemings families, it is those from first and second wives because they are all Jefferson
@41yearoldnewdriver6 жыл бұрын
I was interested in learning more about the story.
@LondonarabS3 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine how many 1/2 trumps out there we don’t know about ?
@iikii59036 жыл бұрын
Its still confusing if you dont know all the descendants since sally and thomas relationship 😑😑😑😑
@valeriegantt-dickens63205 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry; Shannon LaNier looks like pictures I have seen of Thomas Jefferson.
@naturallyours325 жыл бұрын
AGREED
@welcometototalitarianism8124 жыл бұрын
Shannon is very handsome. 😁 Not sure about Jefferson.
@truthb4ureyesgoodgrl9114 жыл бұрын
Very good looking man..
@maricruzgutiez51994 жыл бұрын
We need to take everything out, and say sorry to our ancesters, it would be a way to acept that we abuse them, and we must feel guilty for what our ancertas did. It is not only America, Europeans stated the abuses with Africas and they keep silent. Spanish , French, English Portuguis Belgun, on and on are resposible for all this suffering, we must say sorry to Africas and look after them by apreciate and treating them well.
@victorias42095 жыл бұрын
Such negativity on here. They are family, what's would be the point of keeping the hate going.
@jessebarrera19554 жыл бұрын
Sally hemings was more white (3/4) than African (1/4) and she was also his sister in law...she was his wife's half sister.
@anpdm12 жыл бұрын
That's correct. Sally's mother and grandmother was mixed. Sally's great grand mother was purchased of gifted to the Hemings. Every female she birthed was raped by men of the Hemings family which created a lineage of white house slaves. Jefferson credited himself for producing 4% to 10% of new slaves produced annually. He didn't just impregnate the girls in his home, he impregnated the ones in the field too.
@richardbullis1562 жыл бұрын
Martinez you being Mexican should know that one drop makes anyone black by default. Does not matter what you look like. Blacks come in at 100 colors or shades of the rainbow.
@tberry405096 жыл бұрын
I descend from Katherine Royall Perrin
@melvawages71436 жыл бұрын
Passing Yes, it meant other things. My great grandfather claimed to be 100% Dutch. Through genealogy/ancesty.com I discovered he was half Irish through his father and one fourth dutch and one fourth British through his mother. American people hated the Irish in the late 1800's they were the hated immigrants of that time. I compare them to how many American people feel about Mexicans today Ironically though he married a first generation Irish American girl whose parents immigrated from Ireland in the 1860's. so even thoguh he denied his Irish heritage he married an Irish girl.
@marlastevens90364 жыл бұрын
Passing, like being in the closet as a gay person, self-sabotages the soul.
@ilenecashman79055 жыл бұрын
Love it, "melting pot of beautiful people". ♥
@TheBatugan774 жыл бұрын
Any of them related to Lionel Jefferson? Or Weasie?
@ameliatribeofissachar73114 жыл бұрын
Psalm 83 King James Version (KJV) 83 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: #TheyKnowWhoWeAre Native American Indians Gen 49:19 Tribe of GAD #DaughterOfZion
@shawnarcher95655 жыл бұрын
wouldn't surprise me the founder of the democratic party. ask strom thurmond's family about his hidden black daughter that came out after his death
@strawberryseason5 жыл бұрын
LOL. And you think that the intellectual forbears of the Republican party didn't have them as well?
@MareRS3575 жыл бұрын
People should have DNA test. Many people have different racial backgrounds. Many Woman were raped horrible but I believe Sally looked more white and always lived with the Jefferson children. Many females were married at the age of 14, 15 years old. Loved this mixed family. Look how they call each other family. 😊
@flo-xj6sr Жыл бұрын
I agree, both black & white people supposedly hear past down stories they all need Dna tests personally to prove it 100% bc over the years there could of been infidelity within the lines over the years..
@missymason23775 жыл бұрын
Tell that to Donald Trump!
@b9912285 жыл бұрын
Even if you want to say it’s alleged what can’t be denied is that slaveowners had sexual relations with the slaves and because of the power dynamics these relationships could absolutely in no way be called truly consensual. You can not own your companion and feel that what you are dealing with is a relationship of equals. Maybe rightfully so, this nation ended up paying dearly for this indiscretion.
@relaxrefreshrenew83655 жыл бұрын
Jefferson reminds of r Kelly
@MareRS3576 жыл бұрын
Who on this site should judge. Many girls were married young. People did not live that long. Signs of the times. Sally was suppose to look like Jefferson’s wife Martha. Half sisters. He promised his first wife he would never marry. I think he feel in love with Sally. What life could a slave have at that time. Married or sold and her children sold. The fact that her children could pass for white makes total sense. Many slaves were mixed of course they were raped by their owners. Horrible fact of life. One of their children had red hair just like his father Thomas. Many mixed couples today. Being of color was very hard for many people in America, it still has it’s problems. Sally could of stayed in France with her brother. Sally was betrayed and spoke of as a beautiful young girl in France. She had her freedom there. Why go back to become a slave again. Was Sally in love?
@lolajoselin71345 жыл бұрын
Of course Sally thought she was in love with Massa!!! But after his death Sally wasn't even worth his milk cow!!!! And she was listed among his possessions!!! That's what chattel slavery was all about!!!
@richardbullis1562 жыл бұрын
Sally Hemings children's hair was red, blond, and a brown. Her hair was long and black. I believe four of her children had red hair while the rest had blond and about one had brown hair. What a combination.
@robinsonvlink3 ай бұрын
I don't know if Sally Hemings was "in love" while in Paris as she contemplated staying in Paris. Thomas Jefferson persuaded her to go back to Virginia promising to free any children including the one she was carrying when they reached the age of 21. According to her son Madison his mother probably thought it best to go back to America so that her expected child would be cared for by Jefferson. I think it is very conceivable that Sally did fall in love with her captor as the relationship continued. Fascinating story.
@rebeccabianchi19433 жыл бұрын
It’s funny, they’re ALL on the Thomas Jefferson side. There is no Jefferson side and Hemings side. And since Sally was the half sister of Martha, Thomas’s wife, they’re doubly related.
@jeffmode65262 жыл бұрын
Sally wasn't treated like a sister or sister in law. Thomas Jefferson used her, just like his Father in law used her grandmother, Elizabeth Hemings. Thomas Jefferson could have remarried, and had more children by another wife.
@MegaDavyk3 жыл бұрын
Jefferson Davis the President of the Confederacy was married to a mixed race woman and his children were Afro American. Abraham Lincoln was also mixed race Afro American.
@tracywebb16045 жыл бұрын
Why should you accept that rapist ?
@AC-qi9wo5 жыл бұрын
After you get to an 1/16, of anything you are what you are. It just seems like there are way too many people who are very black, that are supposably descendants of Sally Hemming, coming out of the woodwork. Sally's children, were 1/8, her great grandchildren, if her children married white were 1/4, and great, great 1/32, so the black, is from her children's and great grandchildren, spouses side not directly from her. Do we now how many of Sally's children, married black men or back woman?? How many married white men or white woman ? That would tell you in reality where the black came from but not from Sally.
@strawberryseason5 жыл бұрын
Madison married a mixed-race woman. It seems that some of the family wanted to stay within the black community. But Harriet, Beverly, and Eston merged into the white community.
@carynmaher54065 жыл бұрын
Madison identified himself and his family as black on the same census that his brother identified himself and family as white, I believe. I believe Eston also married a free woman from Virginia before he moved away but maybe she was as light and white as he was. I can see why some people would feel safer passing and I can see why many would not want to give up their identity. I would suppose that I would hope that I looked enough like one side or another to not have to answer stupid questions all of the time or be in danger.
@1313tennisman4 жыл бұрын
@@carynmaher5406 in the end madison was the only one who identified as black. eston did for a while but eventually decided it was best to move away from virginia and begin passing as white. Only 1 in 4 of the children stayed in the black community
@jeffmode65262 жыл бұрын
The further you go back, you're going to find some ugliness. There are no perfect people.
@vloggnwitnae38416 жыл бұрын
Disgusted
@mauiinheart6 жыл бұрын
Please consider a re-do of this interview and for goodness sake have the lady in the red jacket remove those clunky noisy earrings. HUGE distraction and disrespect for Mr. LaNier as well as Interviewer.
@julianhoward60356 жыл бұрын
"It's fact." No it's not. It's a controversy. It's still debatable. It is not fact. Not yet. Say what you will but you cannot say with absolute certainty he had children with Sally Hemings. No one can.
@GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author6 жыл бұрын
Ellen Howard give it up, DNA has already proven it!
@julianhoward60356 жыл бұрын
Gail Becker It's proven AAA Jefferson did it. Not THE Jefferson. There's a 12.5% chance he was the father.
@KimKloes6 жыл бұрын
DNA evidence has shown that a Jefferson (either Thomas or his brother) was the father of these children. The nephew, Peter Carr, has been excluded. Also, research shows that Thomas Jefferson was in residence during the time of the conception of each of Sally Hemmings' children, and his brother was not. Seems like a slam dunk to me.
@angelnafeesa53326 жыл бұрын
He most likely he was the dad
@ceciliapreziose37836 жыл бұрын
it was proven that only one of Sally's kids belonged to TJ