Jerrie Steward - Great Granddaughter of the enslaved Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson

[@melaniecruz4g]

Well done

[@tinatammaro1694]

Thank you! What a great storteller you are! So excited all of this is finally available to us. ❤️ I can't help wishing TJ would have openly married Sally if she wanted to and freed all the enslaved people on his property. Our country would have a very different history. I know it was a different time but it would have changed the world if he had.

[@ah2552]

She is so precious! I just love her spirit. Thanks for sharing!

[@thegrandmasabrina]

Jerrie shows up on my MtDNA test! Very interesting lady, and very interesting story.

[@jmstouter6572]

Imagine being told in the 3rd grade that one of your ancestors is a President of the United States!

[@sashek8451]

It broke my heart to hear you say sundown town (but so cool about the staircase!!). I was in my early thirties working at a nursing home and it was during the Michael Brown riots here in St. Louis. I grew up in a small town an hour south of St. Louis. The entire city was terrified, not knowing when the verdict of the officers would come out, we all had kids in school etc, were scared for them…some people were even leaving the city until after the verdict came out and things calmed down. Anyway I half joked to one of my co-workers.. who happened to be African American, you want to come with me and evacuate to my parents farm? She asked where it was and said no nooo no I don’t even drive into that county..that’s a sundown town. I asked her what that meant and I was in tears when she told me. It’s just always made me beyond sad this legacy but yet here we are…all born into whatever chapter and circumstance..and ancestry..in this present-day nation..and somehow keep carving out our collective future together - while trying to heal and hopefully grow from it all. I love that you went to the reunion despite. This was an amazing presentation and I feel so grateful it was on YT 💛💛💛

[@donnamorrow5556]

Thank you for this delightful presentation of your family. Have you ever tested with AncestryDNA? They have many more subscribers and you may find more cousins.

[@Nightbird1914]

Thank you for sharing your history. I recently read some historical fiction novels that led me to search for the factual details which your charts show so well.

[@sarahann3474]

Thank you so much for sharing! You are so blessed to know your family's history ❤️️ I'm looking forward to what you will find out when you go to Africa 😊

[@shirleyanthony9581]

I refuse to realize it was a relationship more like slave and master

[@NONANTI]

Because Black Girl Magic isn't a thing?

[@tippy550storm]

why is it that no one knows where Sally is buried?

[@jmstouter6572]

We are not talking enough about people who are enslaved at this very moment…a human being in the womb has no rights

[@YE-dr3zk]

Fetus aren't babies or sentient.

[@zemmle]

I have Jeffersons y haplotype according to 23 and me.

[@zsedcftglkjh]

It's an interesting fanfiction. The fact is the DNA "evidence" to pin Jefferson to Hemmings was taken from his Uncle and only proves Hemmings had a child with a Jefferson family member. Why argue with facts when your emotions with suffice, right?

[@ah2552]

That among the oral history and written history and that Jefferson was in Monticello 9 months before each child's birth for a man who was gone for much of the time shows it is more than likely Thomas. Quit disrespecting this family. Must be Herbert Barger nut.

[@ah2552]

Yeah Jefferson's granddaughter blamed the Carr Brothers. When the DNA showed they weren't Carrs you switched over to Randolph. Truth stays consistent.

[@kevinchambers1101]

​@ah2552 actually the DNA shows that it probably would have been other Jefferson relatives instead of Thomas. Oral histories can be accurate and inaccurate. It has nothing to do with disrespecting the woman.

[@Pat4ever.]

Liar. We know this isn't even true lol, the story was always the Carrs. This is made up nonsense.

[@berthaleflore7069]

And