Actually, your video made me want to go visit there. It is only about 3.5 hours from me, so we may have to take a weekend trip soon. Thanks for your video and glad you are back!
This was neat. I’d love to see Monticello especially that the slavery population’s story isn’t buried but being told. Jefferson was the epitome of a hypocrite of do as I say but not as I do. But EVERYONE knew what and who he was doing at Monticello. 😏 Have you been to Mt. Vernon?
Did you need permission to video inside the mansion? I thought they didn’t allow it. Very cool video. I miss our DC trip. Monticello was our last stop. We always ate at Michie Tavern after the tour.
I live just outside of Charlottesville and drive by Monticello every day on my way to work, and as I pass by I think to myself, what was life like for the people living back then, who was walking or riding a horse on this road 200 or 250 years ago. It’s an awe inspiring sight, and I recommend to every who visits Charlottesville, “Go see Monticello! It’s amazing!”
I stopped by Mount Vernon on purpose on my way to Monticello and we took the walking tour and yes I was not impressed with the preservation of the dome room inside Monticello but I was not aware of the walking tours and having to register at Mount Vernon stupidly I might add but I took a pill on the ground in the parking lot and left so Mount Vernon has a little bit of my DNA that was my gift to my forefathers
Grew up in a neighboring county. A few years ago, My sister was one of the few chosen to have her naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July at Monticello, There was so much going on I don’t even remember if the stage was either on the front or back yard of the mansion 😅, televisión cameras and all. But it was definitely an amazing experience. It had rained the night prior, it was a foggy morning, beautiful green trees and mist surrounded the premises, the folks dressed in costume were there, I felt like I was in a movie, it was soooo cool! I’ve lived in several towns/cities of Virginia and I can tell you that I want to retire on a nice little home on the mountains of Virginia, there’s just a different Vibe to Charlottesville that I didn’t fully appreciate until I moved away for college.
You are so right and I detest the way some people are trying to rewrite history to appease the haters. Thomas Jefferson was an amazing Founding Father.
I recently read an excellent biography of Jefferson, titled "Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty." It did a great job of explaining Jefferson as a man, both the good and the bad. Jefferson is without a doubt my favorite US President, but I also recognize that his involvement in the most evil institution in American history (slavery) was awful. We can admire and celebrate the great men and women who built this country, while also recognizing they were by no means perfect people.
The line "all men are created equal", actually referred to political equality, not equally of the races. We must remember this was a time of revolution. With the colonists wanting to preserve their rights that were guaranteed under what they referred to as the ancient constitutions. Rights acknowledged by Parliament. To put things in perspective, court musicians were seen on par with the king's kitchen staff. Considered part of the lower classes. Just as slaves and white indentured servants were. In fact indentures could be bought, sold, retrieved or have their contract extended without their knowledge. We look back at Jefferson's time and recoil at the hygiene of the era, for example, or the institution of slavery. But people in the 18th Century didn't see it that way. They saw slave labor as an economic necessity. Not bathing as a way of avoiding disease. It might also surprise people to learn, that the average person's home was no larger than that of a slave's quarters. Very few were wealthy. With family going back to the 1750's in the South,, I can attest to this fact.
Monticello was primarily built by Irish itinerant builders/carpenters. His enslaved workers were supplemental to this endeavor and some learned their trade by the hired builders/carpenters. Those enslaved workers that learned this trade passed on their knowledge to other slaves thus giving them a trade with which to further their status on the plantation.
@@mrme2653 Mansions, like Monticello, were originally built by 'professionals' with enslaved labor making bricks etc. Some were trained 'on the job' as they did at Monticello so Jefferson could 'tear down and put up' which was his passion. I've read at least 30 books on Jefferson and have done my homework. He made sure the Hemings' family was taught a trade i.e. John was a carpenter, Peter was a chef (trained in Paris), Sally was a seamstress to name a few. John was instrumental in building Poplar Forest which was TJ's retreat. I've been to Monticello twice and Poplar Forest once. Wonderful architecture at both homes designed by Thomas himself.
Hi Uncle George, Not sure if you will remember me but my name is Lily Welch I am Joseph Jarroush’s daughter Anyway I have just been made aware of your channel and I thought it was really cool!! Something that you might want to make a video about is Phineas Gage He has a pretty interesting story
What blinders? Explain yourself If you'd be so kind. Because if one were to take at face value what your comment implies is that people are disregarding Jefferson shortcomings ie: owning slaves and the treatment there in of them. In no moment whatsoever did anyone in the video suggest that Jefferson was perfect, nor just. Like all people's, Jefferson was a man fraught with contradiction. It cannot be denied nor should it be disregarded that his many amazing contributions towards the creation of this incredible experiment known as America. To try and wipe out Jefferson legacy, his many indelible contributions to the creation of it would be incredibly irresponsible and quite frankly idiotic. His owning of slaves truly was one of or, if not his greatest casualty of poor decision and judgment. He was a man of his time and era. Though it doesn't make it right, he did what most men of wealth and high regard did in his time which was owning slaves. Most refuse to know hard truths such as the fact that wealthy black men of the same era owned black slaves too. Indeed, in fact if you do a bit of research you will come across the curious account of a very wealthy black man that as it turns out happened to be the very first person of the "New World" (America) known to have own slaves. Incidentally according to historical accounts he was a very cruelslave master. This is not hyperbole on my behalf one can find this with some due diligence on their behalf. Now back to the statement you made, if it's in response to many of the comments here abouts, I wouldn't put to much stock into their words. Most people unfortunately do not use reason they let emotions dictate their actions and words. Jefferson was an incredible man. He truly was used by God almighty to aid in the construction of this very unique experiment of a New Country. A country unlike any other before it or since. God uses men that are flawed. Men that were truly beriddled with contradiction and very unbecoming shortcomings. Just reference the Bible and see how God uses those racked with "sin" and with hearts filled with darkness to accomplish his objectives. God does this to demonstrate, I believe that no one is beyond redemption and that a man can bare great fruits even if his tree has a number of nodules. To throw out all the good Jefferson did because he did some rotten things would be, first of all irresponsible and subsequently erasing historic accuracies. Better to keep these accounts of historical figures with flaws and all then to start down the path of erasing them from the annals of history. We all fall short. That unfortunately seems to be one of humanities many idiosyncratic juxtaposition that make us quite a curios species to say the least.
I've been there and I was not impressed it's really sad how terribly they've taken care of the dome room you could see water and mold when I was there around Christmas of 2015
TJ is on the money. 💰 Monti Cello is the sweet sound of symphony music. 🎶. He’s on the $2 bill, he’s on the five cents nickel. He has his own state capital Jeff City. He is my great grandfather and I call him Rich Great Granddaddy 💰 maker !!! 👴 . 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 your favorite 😍 has been found! #auval #goldenchild #monticello #literacy #literally #thirdprez #va❤is4lovers #TJhooker 🎣
Hey. A friend sent me a link to this. Great video. I live in Georgia so I made the Trek to Roosevelt's little white house I was a kid. There are a lot of civil War sites near me. Like a lot of republicans today, Jefferson was a man of hypocrisy.
I think it's funny you say that because I am convinced he would more likely identify with a modern day suburban Democrat. Posting yard signs about intersectional rights and support for social causes, while turning away immigrants, opposing urban housing development (housing is a right). IMO, he seems to fit right in with educated, high income earning Democrats. I admit having an elitest attitude isn't unique among Dems. But the first thing that came to mind was my suburban democrat neighbors who pay lip service to the woes of the working class and the struggles of minorities, while actively voting at the local level to gate keep their priviledge. That is just my take. I hope Jefferson would be appalled by both parties tbh.
@@jimba6486 decent take, well founded too. I wrote that message 6 months ago. I don't even remember writing it but I hear what you're saying because technically he would have been a Democrat today anyhow, right ? he would be all for voting rights but would do everything he could locally to limit affordable housing in his area 😂
I watched this video out of respect for a Founding Father of this great nation. I discovered quite a few things: 1. Americans like this uploader secretly despise the Founding Fathers. They can't seem to be able to hide it. 2. At almost every opportunity the narrators - even in the video - bring up Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings. 3. While this isn't a praiseworthy fact, such relations were very common, in ALL landowning societies throughout the east and the west, in Jefferson's time. 4. While not skipping even a beat to bring up that relationship, the narrators DO NOT mention this prevalent fact even once. 5. If Jefferson were to be from any other race or culture, they will not even dream of gaslighting this aspect of his life. 6. It appears that according to some of these dudes at US 101, it is perfectly okay to shit in the plate you eat from. On the plus side: 1. 90% of NATURALIZED citizens in this country have FAR GREATER RESPECT and APPRECIATION for the author of the Declaration of Independence than many of these overgrown, entitled kids like this one who were born, bred - and spoiled - in this great country. 2. The day inevitably comes however, in the lives of these ardent crusaders for justice, when they realize they have been thoroughly duped - and secretly laughed at - at their own or parents' expense, by many of their school teachers, professors, the media, and career politicians etc.; that these career manipulators took away from them their youth when it mattered the most to them.
Don't forget his seditious type behavior in his vice presidency, his war monger nature, overspending to almost indebtedness, along with his womanizing and trafficking of humans.
@@Huskerj1000 His seditious act when he was vice-president, and his human trafficking: I do not know if these are fact or just allegations. Will try to look them up. About Jefferson’s financial debts, this is common knowledge, and hence nothing new.
Jefferson was a genius and architect of the Declaration of Independence. We are enjoying freedoms in this country because of him and the brave souls who stood against the English monarchy!
In regards to the Nature magazine DNA test/Hemings controversy, what most people don't seem to realize is that Nature had to retract their original misleading statement concerning the implication that Jefferson must have fathered Heming's children a year later in 1999. "It is true that men of Randolph Jefferson's family could have fathered Sally Hemings’ later children. Space constraints prevented us from expanding on alternative interpretations of our DNA analysis, including the interesting one proposed by Davis. The title assigned to our study was misleading in that it represented only the simplest explanation of our molecular findings: namely, that Thomas Jefferson, rather than one of the Carr brothers, was likely to have been the father of Eston Hemings Jefferson. We know from the historical and the DNA data that Thomas Jefferson can neither be definitely excluded nor solely implicated in the paternity of illegitimate children with his slave Sally Hemings. When we embarked on this study, we knew that the results could not be conclusive, but we hoped to obtain some objective data that would tilt the weight of evidence in one direction or another. We think we have provided such data and that the modest, probabilistic interpretations we have made are tenable at present." They also always fail to mention that the descendants from only one of Sally's children was ever tested. They have no idea who the fathers of the other children were. There isn't enough space available in a UA-cam comment area to even begin to explain how deceptive Annette Gordon-Reed has been with her "scholarship.." It one case I can think of right off the top of my head, completely changing the meaning of a sentence someone wrote to mean the exact opposite. The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, which unfortunately doesn't manage Monticello, has thoroughly debunked all the nonsense associated with the Jefferson-Hemings lie in a 400+ page independent scholars commission report that can be read here. static1.squarespace.com/static/56d77a9ad51cd4a272d514c0/t/63d84b8a2683c7769f1972a1/1675119505362/Scholars-Commission-Report-1.pdf
Everyone seems to forget the Founding Fathers generation were all born into a world that had the institution of slavery well established, just as slavery still exists in the world today. And the importation of slaves into the United States was officially ended during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. On March 2, 1807, Congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which went into effect on January 1, 1808. In regards to the Nature magazine DNA test controversy, what most people don't seem to realize is that Nature had to retract their original misleading statement concerning the implication that Jefferson must have fathered Heming's children a year later in 1999. "It is true that men of Randolph Jefferson's family could have fathered Sally Hemings’ later children. Space constraints prevented us from expanding on alternative interpretations of our DNA analysis, including the interesting one proposed by Davis. The title assigned to our study was misleading in that it represented only the simplest explanation of our molecular findings: namely, that Thomas Jefferson, rather than one of the Carr brothers, was likely to have been the father of Eston Hemings Jefferson. We know from the historical and the DNA data that Thomas Jefferson can neither be definitely excluded nor solely implicated in the paternity of illegitimate children with his slave Sally Hemings. When we embarked on this study, we knew that the results could not be conclusive, but we hoped to obtain some objective data that would tilt the weight of evidence in one direction or another. We think we have provided such data and that the modest, probabilistic interpretations we have made are tenable at present." And last but not least, there isn't enough space in a UA-cam comment to even begin to explain how deceptive Annette Gordon-Reed has been with her "scholarship.." It one case I can think of right off the top of my head, completely changing the meaning of a sentence someone wrote to mean the exact opposite. The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, which unfortunately doesn't manage Monticello, has even gone so far as to form an independent scholars commission to get to the bottom of the Jefferson-Hemings myth. It can be read here. static1.squarespace.com/static/56d77a9ad51cd4a272d514c0/t/63d84b8a2683c7769f1972a1/1675119505362/Scholars-Commission-Report-1.pdf
Would you want to visit Jefferson's Monticello? What other famous historical homes would you like to see?
Actually, your video made me want to go visit there. It is only about 3.5 hours from me, so we may have to take a weekend trip soon. Thanks for your video and glad you are back!
This was neat. I’d love to see Monticello especially that the slavery population’s story isn’t buried but being told. Jefferson was the epitome of a hypocrite of do as I say but not as I do. But EVERYONE knew what and who he was doing at Monticello. 😏 Have you been to Mt. Vernon?
Did you need permission to video inside the mansion? I thought they didn’t allow it. Very cool video. I miss our DC trip. Monticello was our last stop. We always ate at Michie Tavern after the tour.
@@HufflinPuffs I have! I went there the last time I was in DC
@@healyfamily4 no one told me I couldn’t film so…….
I live just outside of Charlottesville and drive by Monticello every day on my way to work, and as I pass by I think to myself, what was life like for the people living back then, who was walking or riding a horse on this road 200 or 250 years ago. It’s an awe inspiring sight, and I recommend to every who visits Charlottesville, “Go see Monticello! It’s amazing!”
Wonderful video, buddy. I will be in DC on Saturday! I can't wait. Going to Mount Vernon but won't make it up to Monticello, unfortunately.
Mount Vernon is great! Was there the last time I was in DC. Have fun!
I stopped by Mount Vernon on purpose on my way to Monticello and we took the walking tour and yes I was not impressed with the preservation of the dome room inside Monticello but I was not aware of the walking tours and having to register at Mount Vernon stupidly I might add but I took a pill on the ground in the parking lot and left so Mount Vernon has a little bit of my DNA that was my gift to my forefathers
I was there in my teens and again in my early thirties now in my 60's I'd like to go back.
I really appreciate this tour because ive wanted to see it for years...not so sure ill ever be able to in person
I went there.... totally worth seeing
Been there in grade achool. Went to Woodlawn Elementary 2nd grad through 5th. We went as a field trip!
Grew up in a neighboring county. A few years ago, My sister was one of the few chosen to have her naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July at Monticello, There was so much going on I don’t even remember if the stage was either on the front or back yard of the mansion 😅, televisión cameras and all. But it was definitely an amazing experience. It had rained the night prior, it was a foggy morning, beautiful green trees and mist surrounded the premises, the folks dressed in costume were there, I felt like I was in a movie, it was soooo cool! I’ve lived in several towns/cities of Virginia and I can tell you that I want to retire on a nice little home on the mountains of Virginia, there’s just a different Vibe to Charlottesville that I didn’t fully appreciate until I moved away for college.
Thank you, I needed the video for my architecture class
I have been watching your videos since 2016 loved all of them since! Keep it up just remembered to stop by every time
Wow! Love the fact they mention and noted Thomas Jefferson’s children with Sally Hemings.
They do a really good job with it
Merely speculation.
@@chuckconnors7516 I saw the epelisode of maury povich where they did the DNA test and maury said Thomas, you are the father.
@@dancollins8296 Oprah also had the family on her show
Check out Uncle Randy. Same DNA as Thomas.
I a book vlogger and reviewed My Monticello, which centers around this plantation. Very informative and sheds some light on this historic property.
You are so right and I detest the way some people are trying to rewrite history to appease the haters.
Thomas Jefferson was an amazing Founding Father.
Hi
I recently read an excellent biography of Jefferson, titled "Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty." It did a great job of explaining Jefferson as a man, both the good and the bad. Jefferson is without a doubt my favorite US President, but I also recognize that his involvement in the most evil institution in American history (slavery) was awful. We can admire and celebrate the great men and women who built this country, while also recognizing they were by no means perfect people.
missing your videos man
The line "all men are created equal", actually referred to political equality, not equally of the races. We must remember this was a time of revolution. With the colonists wanting to preserve their rights that were guaranteed under what they referred to as the ancient constitutions. Rights acknowledged by Parliament. To put things in perspective, court musicians were seen on par with the king's kitchen staff. Considered part of the lower classes. Just as slaves and white indentured servants were. In fact indentures could be bought, sold, retrieved or have their contract extended without their knowledge. We look back at Jefferson's time and recoil at the hygiene of the era, for example, or the institution of slavery. But people in the 18th Century didn't see it that way. They saw slave labor as an economic necessity. Not bathing as a way of avoiding disease. It might also surprise people to learn, that the average person's home was no larger than that of a slave's quarters. Very few were wealthy. With family going back to the 1750's in the South,, I can attest to this fact.
I'm here coz I found five cents to my curiosity I thought it's a palace or mosium I can barely read the inscription montecilio.😅😅
My ggf george Dudley was an indentured servant there. He liad bricks
Monticello was primarily built by Irish itinerant builders/carpenters. His enslaved workers were supplemental to this endeavor and some learned their trade by the hired builders/carpenters. Those enslaved workers that learned this trade passed on their knowledge to other slaves thus giving them a trade with which to further their status on the plantation.
Not true!!! Slave was building long before the Irish arrived so that's bs!!
@@mrme2653 Mansions, like Monticello, were originally built by 'professionals' with enslaved labor making bricks etc. Some were trained 'on the job' as they did at Monticello so Jefferson could 'tear down and put up' which was his passion.
I've read at least 30 books on Jefferson and have done my homework. He made sure the Hemings'
family was taught a trade i.e. John was a carpenter, Peter was a chef (trained in Paris), Sally was a seamstress to name a few. John was instrumental in building Poplar Forest which was TJ's retreat. I've been to Monticello twice and Poplar Forest once. Wonderful architecture at both homes designed by Thomas himself.
@Deborah Shatzer bs!!! The so called slave already known how to build!!!!!
@@mrme2653 You are obviously uneducated as to the construction of Monticello. Truce.
@@deborahshatzer7408 again you have no idea what ur talking about
What we can Thatch here ?
What a gentleman, and a property
A slaver. Far from being a gentleman.
@@nwadi6408 He was a gentleman "slaver" and he would buy food from his slaves that his slaves grew on his farm. Read the Founding Gardeners.
@@jamescoe4765”gentleman” and “slaver” coexisting in your mind is the height of insanity.
I was just there. I am planning on coming back with my kids.
Hi Uncle George,
Not sure if you will remember me but my name is Lily Welch
I am Joseph Jarroush’s daughter
Anyway
I have just been made aware of your channel and I thought it was really cool!!
Something that you might want to make a video about is Phineas Gage
He has a pretty interesting story
Tommy J was a badass
i am more of a fan of george washingtons house design.
People sure do have them blinders on..these days..
What blinders? Explain yourself If you'd be so kind. Because if one were to take at face value what your comment implies is that people are disregarding Jefferson shortcomings ie: owning slaves and the treatment there in of them. In no moment whatsoever did anyone in the video suggest that Jefferson was perfect, nor just. Like all people's, Jefferson was a man fraught with contradiction. It cannot be denied nor should it be disregarded that his many amazing contributions towards the creation of this incredible experiment known as America. To try and wipe out Jefferson legacy, his many indelible contributions to the creation of it would be incredibly irresponsible and quite frankly idiotic. His owning of slaves truly was one of or, if not his greatest casualty of poor decision and judgment. He was a man of his time and era. Though it doesn't make it right, he did what most men of wealth and high regard did in his time which was owning slaves. Most refuse to know hard truths such as the fact that wealthy black men of the same era owned black slaves too. Indeed, in fact if you do a bit of research you will come across the curious account of a very wealthy black man that as it turns out happened to be the very first person of the "New World" (America) known to have own slaves. Incidentally according to historical accounts he was a very cruelslave master. This is not hyperbole on my behalf one can find this with some due diligence on their behalf. Now back to the statement you made, if it's in response to many of the comments here abouts, I wouldn't put to much stock into their words. Most people unfortunately do not use reason they let emotions dictate their actions and words. Jefferson was an incredible man. He truly was used by God almighty to aid in the construction of this very unique experiment of a New Country. A country unlike any other before it or since. God uses men that are flawed. Men that were truly beriddled with contradiction and very unbecoming shortcomings. Just reference the Bible and see how God uses those racked with "sin" and with hearts filled with darkness to accomplish his objectives. God does this to demonstrate, I believe that no one is beyond redemption and that a man can bare great fruits even if his tree has a number of nodules. To throw out all the good Jefferson did because he did some rotten things would be, first of all irresponsible and subsequently erasing historic accuracies. Better to keep these accounts of historical figures with flaws and all then to start down the path of erasing them from the annals of history. We all fall short. That unfortunately seems to be one of humanities many idiosyncratic juxtaposition that make us quite a curios species to say the least.
I've been there and I was not impressed it's really sad how terribly they've taken care of the dome room you could see water and mold when I was there around Christmas of 2015
Can you do a history video comparing chicago in St Louis
Do a video comparing st Louis to chicago
TJ is on the money. 💰 Monti Cello is the sweet sound of symphony music. 🎶. He’s on the $2 bill, he’s on the five cents nickel. He has his own state capital Jeff City. He is my great grandfather and I call him Rich Great Granddaddy 💰 maker !!! 👴 . 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 your favorite 😍 has been found! #auval #goldenchild #monticello #literacy #literally #thirdprez #va❤is4lovers #TJhooker 🎣
And he goes shitting on Hamilton while having an affair with Sally Hemmings
More into furniture than his personal life.
Hey. A friend sent me a link to this.
Great video. I live in Georgia so I made the Trek to Roosevelt's little white house I was a kid.
There are a lot of civil War sites near me.
Like a lot of republicans today, Jefferson was a man of hypocrisy.
I think it's funny you say that because I am convinced he would more likely identify with a modern day suburban Democrat. Posting yard signs about intersectional rights and support for social causes, while turning away immigrants, opposing urban housing development (housing is a right). IMO, he seems to fit right in with educated, high income earning Democrats. I admit having an elitest attitude isn't unique among Dems. But the first thing that came to mind was my suburban democrat neighbors who pay lip service to the woes of the working class and the struggles of minorities, while actively voting at the local level to gate keep their priviledge. That is just my take. I hope Jefferson would be appalled by both parties tbh.
@@jimba6486 decent take, well founded too.
I wrote that message 6 months ago.
I don't even remember writing it but I hear what you're saying because technically he would have been a Democrat today anyhow, right ?
he would be all for voting rights but would do everything he could locally to limit affordable housing in his area 😂
You have one of the coolest tatoos I've ever seen. 💯
😁😄😄
Compare st Louis to chicago video
Sigma Ohio
You guys are not historians..
Omg... Very little about Monticello or Jefferson but a total focus on slavery. This is not a 101
I watched this video out of respect for a Founding Father of this great nation. I discovered quite a few things:
1. Americans like this uploader secretly despise the Founding Fathers. They can't seem to be able to hide it.
2. At almost every opportunity the narrators - even in the video - bring up Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings.
3. While this isn't a praiseworthy fact, such relations were very common, in ALL landowning societies throughout the east and the west, in Jefferson's time.
4. While not skipping even a beat to bring up that relationship, the narrators DO NOT mention this prevalent fact even once.
5. If Jefferson were to be from any other race or culture, they will not even dream of gaslighting this aspect of his life.
6. It appears that according to some of these dudes at US 101, it is perfectly okay to shit in the plate you eat from.
On the plus side:
1. 90% of NATURALIZED citizens in this country have FAR GREATER RESPECT and APPRECIATION for the author of the Declaration of Independence than many of these overgrown, entitled kids like this one who were born, bred - and spoiled - in this great country.
2. The day inevitably comes however, in the lives of these ardent crusaders for justice, when they realize they have been thoroughly duped - and secretly laughed at - at their own or parents' expense, by many of their school teachers, professors, the media, and career politicians etc.; that these career manipulators took away from them their youth when it mattered the most to them.
Don't forget his seditious type behavior in his vice presidency, his war monger nature, overspending to almost indebtedness, along with his womanizing and trafficking of humans.
@@Huskerj1000 His seditious act when he was vice-president, and his human trafficking: I do not know if these are fact or just allegations. Will try to look them up.
About Jefferson’s financial debts, this is common knowledge, and hence nothing new.
Jefferson was a genius and architect of the Declaration of Independence. We are enjoying freedoms in this country because of him and the brave souls who stood against the English monarchy!
In regards to the Nature magazine DNA test/Hemings controversy, what most people don't seem to realize is that Nature had to retract their original misleading statement concerning the implication that Jefferson must have fathered Heming's children a year later in 1999.
"It is true that men of Randolph Jefferson's family could have fathered Sally Hemings’ later children. Space constraints prevented us from expanding on alternative interpretations of our DNA analysis, including the interesting one proposed by Davis. The title assigned to our study was misleading in that it represented only the simplest explanation of our molecular findings: namely, that Thomas Jefferson, rather than one of the Carr brothers, was likely to have been the father of Eston Hemings Jefferson.
We know from the historical and the DNA data that Thomas Jefferson can neither be definitely excluded nor solely implicated in the paternity of illegitimate children with his slave Sally Hemings. When we embarked on this study, we knew that the results could not be conclusive, but we hoped to obtain some objective data that would tilt the weight of evidence in one direction or another. We think we have provided such data and that the modest, probabilistic interpretations we have made are tenable at present."
They also always fail to mention that the descendants from only one of Sally's children was ever tested. They have no idea who the fathers of the other children were.
There isn't enough space available in a UA-cam comment area to even begin to explain how deceptive Annette Gordon-Reed has been with her "scholarship.." It one case I can think of right off the top of my head, completely changing the meaning of a sentence someone wrote to mean the exact opposite. The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, which unfortunately doesn't manage Monticello, has thoroughly debunked all the nonsense associated with the Jefferson-Hemings lie in a 400+ page independent scholars commission report that can be read here.
static1.squarespace.com/static/56d77a9ad51cd4a272d514c0/t/63d84b8a2683c7769f1972a1/1675119505362/Scholars-Commission-Report-1.pdf
Everyone seems to forget the Founding Fathers generation were all born into a world that had the institution of slavery well established, just as slavery still exists in the world today.
And the importation of slaves into the United States was officially ended during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. On March 2, 1807, Congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which went into effect on January 1, 1808.
In regards to the Nature magazine DNA test controversy, what most people don't seem to realize is that Nature had to retract their original misleading statement concerning the implication that Jefferson must have fathered Heming's children a year later in 1999.
"It is true that men of Randolph Jefferson's family could have fathered Sally Hemings’ later children. Space constraints prevented us from expanding on alternative interpretations of our DNA analysis, including the interesting one proposed by Davis. The title assigned to our study was misleading in that it represented only the simplest explanation of our molecular findings: namely, that Thomas Jefferson, rather than one of the Carr brothers, was likely to have been the father of Eston Hemings Jefferson.
We know from the historical and the DNA data that Thomas Jefferson can neither be definitely excluded nor solely implicated in the paternity of illegitimate children with his slave Sally Hemings. When we embarked on this study, we knew that the results could not be conclusive, but we hoped to obtain some objective data that would tilt the weight of evidence in one direction or another. We think we have provided such data and that the modest, probabilistic interpretations we have made are tenable at present."
And last but not least, there isn't enough space in a UA-cam comment to even begin to explain how deceptive Annette Gordon-Reed has been with her "scholarship.." It one case I can think of right off the top of my head, completely changing the meaning of a sentence someone wrote to mean the exact opposite.
The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, which unfortunately doesn't manage Monticello, has even gone so far as to form an independent scholars commission to get to the bottom of the Jefferson-Hemings myth. It can be read here.
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