Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States Documentary

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[@stevesleg]

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[@joeg5414]

Met him once. kind of weird guy

[@younggarde4797]

how much I hate you for creating big faces for your own lack of confidence, good job.

[@michaelandrewwilson5128]

I have a unknown painting of Jefferson made by French Painter Jean Jaques Desoria , let me know if you want to use the image

[@michaelrabb2044]

@@joeg5414Funny 😅

[@josephzacharias7992]

I live down the road from all this. His house is on top of the foothill looking down on Martha Jefferson hospital. I love living in this area. The view and the landscape is beyond beautiful.

[@SwissCheese112]

I’ve always wanted to visit the Appalachian region. Too bad it’s become so poor.

[@ethanpurita]

Me too!

[@ethanpurita]

​@@SwissCheese112 - What?

[@gregdarby2918]

😊😊

[@carywest9256]

@@SwissCheese112 The people of the mountains of Appalachia have always been poor folks. I consider all the land North and West of the Shenandoah Valley as Appalachia!

[@tylerbushong3452]

Davy Crockett please. LOVE your work! I listen to them at night. Seriously, thank you for these.

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[@tedtimmis8135]

I love listening to a southern British accent. Very easy on the ears.

[@AnthroGuitarist]

My personal favorite president. The internet is severely lacking in video documentaries on his extraordinary life. Thank you!!!

[@rodenrren2]

A pedophile can never be my favorite anything

[@chrismink6650]

It's disgusting that a statue of the man was just removed after he tried to liberate as many as he could.

[@williamwhitten7820]

*Jefferson was a man of his times which were complex on many social and political levels. Certainly the greatest political genius of his times, he was yet hobbled by his personal flaws in regard to his maintaining slaves himself. Surely an economic consideration as a southern agrarian businessman. Yet beyond all his foibles I admire Jefferson as one of the greatest Americans in history.*

[@garudagal23]

Well done vid! Your voice is quite good , clear and pleasant to listen to and the life of Jefferson thoroughly presented. Thank you

[@paulkeith5000]

Was Jefferson a great man? Yes. Was Jefferson a hypocrite? Yes. The one does not necessarily cancel the other. The takeaway: Was Jefferson a human being torn by both inner and historical conflicts? Yes.

[@tok713]

Are there any great men, or women, who aren't hyprocrites?

[@WolfRoseQUEEN]

Was Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton? Yes Did Hamilton and Jefferson hate each other? Yes

[@dukey19941]

@@tok713 There is no man or woman alive today and in history who hasn't been a hypocrite.

[@SA-5247]

He was without a doubt one of the smartest human beings that lived during the enlightenment. Regardless of what people who couldn’t even tell you the first 3 presidents think.

[@AtomicPunx]

Well said!

[@seashepherds4959]

Hypocrisy is the BANE of people- it is never to be acceptable under ANY circumstance as it only perpetuates itself where accepted. I very good documentary and let the words of all good historians "That we can only judge others actions by the times they lived in not in ours". Jefferson was a wealthy and well landed individual and that he would take up with a woman and then turn their children into slaves while stating "All Men are Equal" IS hypocrisy in any time. Your Children ARE your CHILDREN. Many served and have served this Nation and he is one- for his words and good deeds we hold as self-evident Thomas Jefferson SERVED his Nation with Dignity- not so for some who came to SELF-SERVE.

[@justinbell700]

Great documentary. And the truth should set you free.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Yes! Love your channel! Keep on making this incredibly enterteining and informative content!

[@clintonwerner4681]

I would say that Thomas Jefferson was farsighted for his time

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

They legalistically wouldnt let him free his slaves it was hard to to it not impossible. So he started a family with one of them. Eventhough that wasnt allowed either. A slave wasnt legally allowed to be a wife so it had to be their little secret their family existing. Not impissible in 5000+ acres. Her children grew uo and they knew how to olay violin because jefferson knew and clearly taught them because he knew he was their father and he was trying to be one considering the harsh times asmnd circumstances. When they were freed one of them even changed his name to jefferson. Its very odd how his kids were his slaves but i mean he clearly didnt want that. They were far ahead of their time. Jeffersons neughbor was suspcious at all the half black half white kids running around his neighbors property and word got out. It was sad but it was also a real family that existed. You can imagine jefferson and hemmings discussing many things. They went to france and slavery was illegal so he paid her a wage for being a servant like an employee and then he begged her to go back go usa as a slave if her kids were freed Its very unusual 😂 but when you remember who thomas was friends with it was all guys actively working to free the slaves so to them it was long term thinking. She may not have been allowed to be fre but they were going ti make it so the slaves could be and in the long run that would mean the childrens chikdren of hemmings and jefferson wouldnt be slaves. They had all these terrible laws imposed that made it so if yiu imoreganted a slave her kid would be a slave even if they were over half white. Hemmings was like 7/8 white but still a slave because she was the child of a slave. They were trying to change that. Theres no way jefferson wouldnt liked his children being his own slaves. It was a secret family because a white founding father getting with a slave and having babies was flabberghasting to all the people who at the tike thought usa was going to be ran like europe where only elite marry elite. Jeffersons neighbor was trying to make him look bad for having mixed race kids. They were like, you can have slaves but no mixed race kids thats just too far! 😂😂😂😂😂 it was dark times. Slaves werent allowed to get married so thomas kept track of his slaves families in secret. They founded tge coytnry but al lthe legal vattlegrounds and actual wars to set thenrecord straight hadnt happened yet

[@thebiggol]

@@TheAnnoyingBoss There is zero verifiable proof that Jefferson fathered any of Hemings children. It's all pure speculation.

[@cdfdesantis699]

Certainly, Jefferson was a brilliant politician & forward-thinker, realizing on an intellectual level the pitfalls of slavery. On a personal level, however, he seems to have found it more expedient to maintain the unfortunate status quo of holding his own slaves. Shifting gears, 21st century Americans would do well to consider the concerns of George Washington regarding the "spirit of party" leading to instability & despotism, with the current schisms dividing Republicans & Democrats. I have always described myself as a "democratic republican". I had no idea I'm echoing Jefferson's own description of his political position. An insightful man.

[@arturrofi5933]

He only found that Idea after he was having children’s with his slaves. WASHINGTON WAS ONE OF THE FIRST WHO FREED SLAVES AND EVEN WHEN HE HAD SLAVES THEY WERE NOT REALLY SLAVES. They had homes, they had guns, and they were learning how to farm and other trades that went with farming, including doing business. Washington was stingy as shit thought, maybe that’s why he didn’t want to sleep with any slaves or other flying hoes!

[@marcostar57]

Today's partisan division is quite distinct. One party stands for a competitive functioning democracy and the other a fascist cult. Washington likely didn't envision that.

[@cdfdesantis699]

@@marcostar57 Ah, this nation saw such political divides before, my friend, in its struggle for independence from Great Britain, & the extreme rhetoric which eventually led to the Civil War. Washington & other founding fathers were forward-thinkers; hence, the safeguards they established in the Constitution & the Bill of Rights. They also considered the past, incorporating democratic principles from the classic Greek concept of "republic". There is nothing new under the sun, & sadly, past mistakes return to plague humanity again & again. Thanks for your reply.

[@marioarguello6989]

​@@marcostar57 Just for kicks, who are the fascists?

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@marioarguello6989fascism is about control. The definition previous to about a year ago included control of speech and disarmament of the opposition. Just like hitler and Stalin. Neither cared about left or right as do I, it was about political opposition. The first thing hitler did was imprison his political opposition in Dachau opened in 1933. He had the Scholls beheaded in 1943 for nothing more than distributing anti nazi leaflets. I think Sophie Scholl was only 22 at the time. And her and her brother started out as hitler youth

[@rexredmonwalkingintheword9892]

What an amazing place and what an amazing man sure did he have flaws yes plenty of them but he also helped craft for us the finest document ever drafted by man. It is so sad the way people try to judge everyone across the scope of History through the lens that they gave you everything here in modernity

[@alanaadams7440]

You cannot judge the history by contemporary rules

[@HopefulHealingGarden]

We all have flaws. Flawed individuals are all God has to work with, and he deals with it. So should we. What he did, along with the other Founding Fathers, is not only miraculous, but Providential. God's Hand was on them. I pray we never forget it.

[@cristagriffin5562]

As Pastor Steven Furtick has stated: (Do)|n't| judge yesterday's actions with today's wisdom.

[@chrisschepper9312]

​@@HopefulHealingGardenthere is no god.

[@Kdpainted]

Just discovered this channel, such interesting and great content!

[@Soundwaves-fi8dn]

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

He was fighting the matrix all the way back then bro. Whuch conforms the minds of people into obeying complying allowers of evil. The blind eye turners

[@angelalowery4545]

ASE' 🙌

[@mickcox8603]

Why can't both be true. For the saying goes, " don't ever meet your heroes for you will be bitterly be disappointed"

[@dinagodinez269]

Sad but he was a walking contradiction! A people pleaser, that was why he won the election. An Adams lost! He stole a lot of ideas from Adams! That is why Washington and his wife couldn't stand him anymore! He literally betrayed Adams! There is a very good reason why Jefferson burnt all his letters to his wife. What is he hiding?!😳. If we only knew!

[@robertkoth4022]

Not AUDY MURFEY

[@ethanpurita]

THJ lived in Poplar Forest, his Summer home. I am from here. I have lived in Cville too and visited Monticello as well. I love being a Virginian. My elementary school was named after Jefferson, same with my high-school. The street I grew up on is named after Jane Randolph, THJ's mother.

[@suzettebennett816]

So what. I worked at Thomas Jefferson High school 🏫. No big deal.

[@ethanpurita]

@@suzettebennett816 - Okay, no big deal 🤡

[@katherinecollins4685]

Fantastic documentary

[@fivewandhaul]

At 1:26, this is the Whalehead Hunt Club in Corolla, NC. built in the 1920s. Not sure what that has to do with the Randolphs. Anyway, it’s a nice museum to visit.

[@michaelrabb2044]

Great show. Extremely informative.

[@joeg5414]

Do Millard Fillmore. A lot of people probably never even heard of him, and he was a president

[@user-qg5wg9ut2o]

Thank you for your wonderful & Honest presentation about America's founding fathers.

[@humbertycarrillo483]

Jefferson is a legend❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@audreyroche9490]

Yep British American presidents made Americana while English Americans were well educated it was handed down to them by the Romans whi educated the English they caused wars pulled out and there people stayed on in that country and took over the government of America the English done same thing every country thet invaded including Britain and Ireland caused civil wars as they changed there reglion threw Henry 8th because he wanted a divorce he changed it ti church of England protestant the chance in reglion would separate the Catholics native Scottish Irish and Welsh from there invaders caused alot of problems in Britain

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful historical coverage video about Jefferson 3rd US president

[@Kdpainted]

This is truly an incredible channel

[@johnwest9577]

Jefferson's words are inspiring and Monticello is amazing. We all have hypocrisy in our own liives, so, as far as Sally Hemmings' offspring with him - I think her descendents can decide how they view his life. I have heard some of them speak and they have been open to meet their relatives from Jefferson's wife & don't push for reparations. Jefferson did keep his word to both his wife and Sally Hemmings. He didn't remarry, and he let his children by Sally Hemmings leave Monticello when they turned 21 if they wanted. Many of them settled in Ohio and have done well on their own accord.

[@carywest9256]

I see we have the same surname, my ancestors landed in Wilmington,N.C. in the mid 1700s. And eventually settled in Southwest Louisiana at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. My direct ancestor from lreland by the name of Nathaniel West is in a cemetery where modern day Allen,Rapides and Vernon Parishes(Counties) all three meet. I was born in Louisiana but raised a Texican!

[@siggyretburns7523]

Exactly. As nobody is 100% truthful, hypocracy is up there with it. Its of to what degree ones honesty fluctuates that describes his character.

[@rosemaryshores433]

He was both a brilliant statesman and a hypocrite.

[@dukey19941]

@@rosemaryshores433 As are you Rosemary. As we all are.

[@suzettebennett816]

Hemings. Reparations yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Amen.

[@lucyjexy]

Either Aaron Burr or Henry Clay could make for an interesting video. :)

[@Kdpainted]

Great video

[@sandrajones1609]

Excellent presentation. In answering the 2 closing questions, yes & yes! Subscribed.

[@wabdatl]

Fine job. Thank you very much. One small point, I believe it was Franklin who suggested the phrase "self evident" as a revisions to a religious "God given right" that Jefferson had in his first draft.

[@darkisland04]

Providence always plays its' sublime melodies of freedom and progress progress through means of flawed instruments.

[@user-rc5px1hu9j]

One of greatest POTUS throughout history！R.I.P Thomas Jefferson

[@chiendinh-je2xi]

Dead is peace?

[@crispianhayhurst8646]

Thanks

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thank you!

[@michaelsinger4638]

A fascinating complex man. Full of contradictions.

[@brandonf24]

We're all walking contradictions throughout the course of our lives. Being cognizant of those failings is the first step to a remedy. Jefferson, among others, would serve to lay the foundation upon which subsequent generations could strive to perfect that union...progress and reform itself through public policy is slow...smallpox and COVID are fast. As a privileged man of his time, he was a public servant with the resources and means of plantation aristocracy to put forth ideas that would eventually become contrary to the interests of that very class...see German Socialist immigrants throughout the Midwest US in their arguments for agrarianism, support of the Republican Party of the time, in opposition to the westward expansion of that plantation aristocracy turned secessionist patrician republic. He was a flawed, exceptional man that ultimately challenged this nation to continue that incremental, generational change with an influence on these shores and abroad.

[@isharymer8347]

it would appear that he was a man of great philosophical ideals who lacked the moral and spiritual strength to uphold those same ideals. this is seen in his dealings with slavery, with the french revolution and the seditions act to name a few.

[@lmktacwa]

exactly! I am almost finished with the book American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis. Jefferson was able to compartmentalize his opposing ideals. I highly recommend the book for an in depth analysis of Jefferson through his letters.

[@siggyretburns7523]

As nobody tells the truth 100%, There's a bit of hipocracy in all of us as well. Now, getting ourselves to admit it is where the challenge is.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

My Left Foot.

[@siggyretburns7523]

@@freddyfurrah3789 So when someone asks you, "How ya doin'?" And you say, "Fine, thanx.", You're being honest? You have no problems in your life?

[@sueelliott8085]

It is hardly the same thing as not recognising your Children. I visited Monticello recently and the horses lived in better accommodation than the Slaves. He was a man with vision, but he consistently failed to live up to that vision. The Founding Fathers were not the Gods many Americans hold them up to be.

[@sherryberry4577]

No man is without contradictions. Politicians are particularly unprincipled.

[@brittybee6615]

The channel Leather Apron Club has a good video explaining why it is extremely unlikely that Jefferson fathered any of Hemming’s children, but rather Jefferson’s brother Randolph.

[@johnkrstyen7351]

More than likely was his brother's.

[@toonstierney1170]

I was going to bring up this video as well. Thank you Sir

[@kickinghorse2405]

Min 42:13 Amazing foresight on the part of George Washington.

[@deniaridley]

Yes! I thought the same.

[@TheAncientOneVI]

My Great-Great-Grandfather (1870-1967)spoke to someone who met Thomas Jefferson. The person who met Jefferson was named Charlie The story has been passed down by generations, and according to the story, Jefferson was a very curious man, always asking more questions about you rather than expressing himself, all with a happy and smiling character, a very optimistic person. We don’t know who he is, but my Great Great Grandfather has stated that the person he spoke to that met Thomas Jefferson was named “Charlie”. We don’t know who this Charlie is, but by great grandfather was 14 years old when he met Charlie, and that Charlie was in his early 90s, meaning that he must have been born between the years 1785-95. My Great Great Grandfather said, in the years he was alive, that Charlie was a prominent soldier, enlisting in the American military in 1808. He met Jefferson during his military service, right before Madison was sworn in as President. He fought in the war of 1812, and served in the military until 1830. Charlie wrote a memoir to remember this conversation with Jefferson, which is how Charlie remembered it over 75 years later, in the 1880s when my great great grandfather met Charlie. My family knows Charlie because Charlie was a far neighbor, who lived a few blocks away from where my great great grandfather grew up. We know Charlie died in 1885, and had a son named Henry, who lived in Indianapolis. Henry moved in with Charlie in 1884 after Charlie’s health was rapidly declining. Henry was supposedly born in “1830” according to Charlie, but Henry looked a lot older. Henry remained in the house after Charlies death, until Henry died around 15 years later. I’m providing all the info I know just in case anyone in the reply section has any questions.

[@JB-ce3gl]

great video. thanx

[@davidoskutis6290]

The video is also a little incorrect in saying he never tried to sway his statesemen in freeing slaves. He did write a draft of the Dec of Ind that condemned King George III for allowing slave trade, and it was deleted by the other delegates. And later (in 1784 - in the Confederation Congress), he proposed that new western territory was governed by congressional control until the population grew to the size of the smallest original 13 state, it could petition for statehood, with a provision that the new states prohibit slavery. Congress voted that provision down. Also In 1784, Jefferson helped draft an ordinance for surveying and selling congressional lands; though superseded by the Land Ordinance of 1785, Jefferson's ordinance established the basic framework of federal land policy. The 1784 Territorial Government Ordinance was replaced with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which did prohibit slavery in those lands organized north of the Ohio River. The problem Jefferson ran into was that he tried several times to get "everyone" to free slaves, because he knew that a freed slave (particularly in his time and even up through the Civil War) were often kidnapped, papers taken up, and resold to new plantations in a different state to prevent their original owners from being able to verify that they were, indeed, freed slaves. He could see the great conflict of slavery and the devastation of a Civil War (maybe not the degree of the fighting and death it ended up being), particularly in a new nation that would've just then been consumed by Great Britain again, or perhaps even taken over by France, once America tore itself apart. And as for George Washington - while President in Philadelphia, a slave was automatically freed after living there for 6 months - so every 5 months, George Washington would rotate out his slaves with slaves from Mount Vernon in order to prevent them being legally freed from underneath him. And, of the 317 slaves at Mount Vernon in 1799, 123 individuals were owned by Washington and were stipulated in Washington's will to be freed upon his wife's death (not his own death). However, these conditions did not apply to all slaves at Mount Vernon. When Martha Washington's first husband Daniel Parke Custis died without a will, she received a life interest in one-third of his estate, including his slaves. The other two-thirds of the estate went to their children. Neither George nor Martha could free these dower slaves by law. Upon her death the slaves would revert to the Custis estate and be divided among her grandchildren. By 1799, 153 slaves at Mount Vernon were part of this dower property. Forty more slaves were rented from a neighbor, while another man, Peter Hardiman, was rented from the widow of Martha Washington's son. All these people would eventually return to their owners. So, he didn't free "his" slaves, only gave them to his wife to be freed upon her death (she died 3 years later) - and that was also less than half the slaves that were at Mt. Vernon. Washington and Jefferson can easily be called hypocrites, for sure, but to say Jefferson is while Washington is not is also hypocritical. If anything, I'd say Jefferson was a brilliant man that solved a lot of problems - unfortunately slavery was not one of them (but hey, even Einstein's brilliance ended up giving us the atomic bomb, for what that's worth).

[@charlesherrera1633]

Stop referring to the democratic republican party as Republicans. They were the democratic party. They dropped republican name and just called themselves the democratic party.

[@akko328]

Jefferson was neither a hypocrite nor a hero on the issue of slavery but rather a realist who endured to preserve the then fragile fabric and manage the conflicting interests of the young United States. Without Jefferson’s genius and strong convictions, Lincoln wouldn’t have been able to reach Jefferson’s ultimate goal of abolishing slavery.

[@michaeldunwoody3629]

You are right on point. Too many over narrowly focus on a single point and miss the mosaic. There are so many interrelated issues but it can only be judged as a conglomerate, not stitch at a time.

[@ADogandHisBoy]

Plus it was ILLEGAL for him to free his slaves

[@cjabbott9688]

But you’re ancestors wasn’t one being subjugated, in bondage, raped and wealth stolen. So I can see why you have have that mindset.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

For men who were raised groomed into the idea that it was normal to be born into a slave holding family in a society where slaves wwre treated like commodities globally, you could tell by their life accomplishments that they deeply wanted to see the future of the nation after they were gone to not go that way, but to go the opposite. They couldnt free their slaves when Their neighbor just enslaves them and they arent allowed to buy land or get a good paying job. They had to go in and make the foundation not for a slave hokding nation but a nation they knew was agead which was goingnto be more successful without slaves than any slave holding nation ever was. As soon as things like cotton jin and seeing machine started coming out. The civik war, the amohnt kf slaves plummeted although there was still the 1800s and man yo udidntnwant ti be a slave or not un those times they didnt even have ibuprophen to knock the edge off your headache 😂 they amputated without painkillers and they got to chopping slicing prying

[@Greggy0]

Please do Micheal Colins Ireland 🇮🇪

[@markgillis2970]

History has shown the good and evil in man. And to this day has not change man's fate or destiny given situations only he can decide for himself. Regardless of the lessons and philosophy handed down throughout history. No one can walk in another man's shoes. Only his own, and he will find he is not much different. Being human is our only excuse.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

He got fucked when he was born into a slave holding family bro. Then the corruot pro slavers were like "YOu hAvE tO iNhErIt tHoSe Or EslE, YoU caNt FreE thEm, oNly bUy oR seLl" and then hundreds of years later thet want to act like as if it was a choice he ahd any power in making. The legal framework was corruptly erected before he was born he was going to inheret slaves whether he liked it or nit. It was just a real werid time. Kinda like the light shines brightest in the darkest times type situation for real

[@michaelhenault1444]

"the pursuit of happiness" was added at the suggestion of Franklin. 😊

[@user-es3vx9te9v]

Love this channel

[@jelsner5077]

I enjoyed your video but wish you had factored in Jefferson's contribution to architecture in the newly formed United States. Jefferson brought Palladian architecture to America, in the design of his own homes, in the homes of his neighbors, in the design of the UVA and inspired much of the architecture of the nation's capital. Jefferson even submitted a design for the White House.Truly a brilliant, if flawed, man.

[@user-cp3zj5oc7q]

The man known to history…

[@kilermekov]

Jefferson is a shining example of the necessity of the "Death of the Author" viewpoint. We can celebrate his writings as an inspired articulation of the modern recognition of basic universal rights while also castigating him for the monstrous actions he took upon the people he held in bondage.

[@theresamann1947]

Tut tut

[@bertvosburg558]

Jefferson said of slavery,"It's like holding a wolf by the ears, You don't want to hold it but you're afraid to let it go".

[@kilermekov]

Monstrous action 1: Owning people Monstrous action 2: Having sex with a person you have total life and death control over. That's rape, there is no consent when you are a slave. Monstrous action 3: Trying to excuse 1 & 2 using an analogy that likens people to cattle. Go back to your cave loser, you're 0-3. 1865, 1945, 2020 👋

[@tracyripple]

@@JohnnyRep-hz5qh "Does a farmer mistreat his cattle?" Pink Floyd song: "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces". Roger Waters said it was inspired by the sight of a cow peacefully grazing in a meadow. It's all perception I suppose.

[@latanyatitus429]

Just so you know at the age of 14 not old enough to consent to any sort of "relationship" with a grown man.

[@philodonoghue3062]

Especially when he legally owns you.

[@hectormata449]

Just so you know, maturity at an early age was a necessity for both men and women. Try to understand the time period and not project the extended and nurturing of adolescent behaviors of our times where we can’t seem to become mature individuals until the mid twenties and beyond. Examples, Hunter Biden, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, etc.

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

Thanks.

[@RNDixit-me5uj]

Sir.....Not a single video on Indian profile.....Kindly make few videos on Indian personalities too!!

[@tok713]

I agree. Where do we start?

[@AnthroGuitarist]

Good morning sirs

[@manishbhagat1142]

Dr.B R Ambedkar

[@manishbhagat1142]

@@Hard_Right Dr. B R Ambedkar was one of the most proficient leaders of the world and you are saying he's not worthy of biographies

[@marioarguello6989]

What about Chinese personalities, and a few Pakistanis too? Do you have any recommendations?

[@user-dx5gk1zh5r]

Thanks!

[@kn9ioutom]

AMERICA ! A WORK IN PROGRES !!!

[@DJCal_Z]

Jefferson knew US wasnt strong or rich enough, Britain France can easily reconquer a weak US. He learned from living in France liking their post revolutionary politics even bringing Sally to France and begged her to come back home to US with him. This means he loved Sally and their children. I give him credit because the dude is from British nobility, to even talk smack about his King and help lead a revolt and have relationship with his wifes half sister who's black and loving her. The standard of his time show he meant what he wrote that all men are created equal. But if his new government dont watch it, the reason I believe he was smart, if weakened US then all will be taken back by king loving nobilities of Europe. Even out witting Napoleon's government for extra $5M more than the $10M the US gov was willing to buy the small city not only NewOrleans Jefferson took Louisiana double the whole land of the continental US! Jefferson was able to do this against Napoleon lead government, who conquered most of Europe! Great job Jefferson!

[@zhinan888]

People are all conflicted. I think Thomas Jefferson is certainly one of the giants in world history. And his words inspire people around the world to this day.

[@williamthomas3620]

Excellent documentary. Jefferson was simply a Man of His Time, and should be judged as such.

[@margaretlouise6200]

As to TJ and slavery, "Great men have great flaws...." It's not much of an excuse, but it's the only one he's got.

[@philiphorner31]

Behold...I give you Chicago!

[@thetruth5680]

​@@philiphorner31 lol weak talking point 😂

[@doncunningham5242]

His disputes didn't result in violence. And adding The Lewis & Clark Expedition with all the gains as we are a dysfunctional species with primal interests and godlike powers is what E.O.Wilson says of Harvard. He was an Entomologist and went on sabbatical is where I met him in late 1979. Watson took over at Harvard with the first DNA research done here in this country.

[@doncunningham5242]

Is E.O. Wilson still alive ?

[@staceyadams2272]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video!

[@jps3b719]

The way we are going, in two hundred years civilization can look back and call us barbaric for owning pets, or farm animals, beasts of burden. It’s ridiculous to look back two centuries and hold anyone up to today’s standards and laws.

[@dianarodriguez9783]

He tried to free all slaves. The other members struck it out not to mess with the south. His wife died he made that pact never marry again at 39 maybe he kept the slave to keep his young companion and children close. I admire him as a leader. Great man of his time.

[@kelvinbanks7497]

Requesting Harry Truman please

[@SumKnight-iw4rw]

Agree with Jefferson on one thing. The slaves should have been freed and sent back to their families with financial settlement if they wanted to go.

[@josestirtabudi6247]

I think Jeffersen was both. It's very possible and history bears it out that many times people do not live out to their ideals. That's why it's an ideal. I would even argue that sometimes the ideal is virtually impossible to enforce. Thomas Jeffersen's failure to adhere fully to his philosophy simply denotes him human and as all the rest of us, missed the mark in many areas

[@catalinamarquez6937]

Beautiful flag ,one of my favorite special the stars and the stripes ❤❤❤❤13

[@SosaSal_]

You don’t t have many Wild West videos. Can you do Calamity Jane next?

[@gmq94]

It would be nice, it would be nice… to have Hamilton on your site

[@Sabotage_Labs]

Not a very fair assessment. Assuming he could have freed his slaves, it was never that simple I'm that time. Perhaps, keeping them as slaves but, treating them as free in everything but name... Educating them, providing a safe home, never ever punishing them with brutal violence... Perhaps Jefferson was doing the right thing after all. It wasn't uncommon in that time for freed blacks to be forced back into slavery and...it's not as if the north loved freed blacks. Although many opposed slavery and rightfully so. They still believed people of African decent should be removed from America. Whether it be central America as Lincoln onced proposed or several slow boats back to Africa. No, I think it's much more complicated and no one alive today can honestly judge anyone in that era. These "slaves" all cried and opened their masters death and I like to think it's more because they say him as a father and not a master. Btw.... Washington couldn't free his slave while he was alive. Well, while his wife was alive. They were her slaves. He inherited them from her family and legally...he wasn't permitted to free them. Funky laws those days. And again... simply freeing them wasn't always in their best interests. Like Jefferson, they could be preferred and treated with liberties on Washington's land and as his "property". Remaining as his property ensured their safety. Slavery was and still is abhorrent. More poeple are enslaved today that ever was at its height in America. I would much rather we Americans, regardless of our ethnicity, would come together as Americans at work to end the slavery that exists today! Let's put our energy there while still remember the sins and travesties of our past!

[@jayaramireddysreeyapureddy4156]

Excellent Individual who fought for individual's liberty from the tyranny of state.

[@PresidentAutumn]

Requesting the 7th president next: General Andrew Jackson

[@Ell1990]

Old Hickory!

[@kilermekov]

As long as they cover the blatant disregard for the law and enthusiastic genocide...

[@robertolds6178]

AJ was an effective tactical commander. (Yes, that was period) His Presidency has to rank as one of total disregard for kae and basic human rights. I usually refer to him as the POS that followed Johnny.

[@robertolds6178]

KAE should be law. Sorry for the typo.

[@pushitlpvo]

@@kilermekov Shut the hell up. You’re happy about Trumps indictment too. You’re better than Jackson? You’re nothing, nobody. You’re not better than these men. Just keep being nothing and shhhh.

[@earlofsmeg]

We really don't know when his ancestors came here. There are many theories. We can't be even sure where they came from.

[@tok713]

Someone suggested American Indian leaders. I think that's a great idea.

[@jampasurprenant1794]

Thank you for the greatest of the history of the president of the United States .

[@garyjohnson8327]

The lands he was surveyed were known by the people who lived there. Eurocentric tripe. The tax was to maintain the troop that stopped western expansion. That was the "problem ", not the tax

[@kate739]

Might I add that no man has the right to own another man woman or child no matter how well they are treated - no one has the right to own another.

[@johnkeenan4976]

Jefferson was a good man and was a man of his time. Like all men and women he fell short of the promises of what persons of good will seek: perfect justice, which is a work of constant struggle in this world.

[@ethanramos4441]

“That government is best which governs the least, because the people disciple themselves” Thomas Jefferson

[@nihal.k.k.7846]

Abraham Lincoln story please

[@ninaalmark7584]

I think he was a child of his epoch, but obviously a pioneer. What more could he have done at the time? He foresaw the problem, and you can fall back on his declaration for that, which is still valid today

[@nukelaloosh4795]

the jeffersons were moving on up

[@davidgroskopf7898]

I look to a man’s accomplishments as well as his disappointments

[@sandraevans6066]

Thank you most interesting and informative. I enjoyed listening to this podcast. I do believe that in part he wasn’t true to his beliefs on equality. Nonetheless he was undoubtedly a great statesman.

[@BerzerkHistory]

Drafting of Declaration of Independence**

[@wolfgangschwartzenweintrau6208]

So was Adolph Hitler a great statesman.

[@nyangab]

Enslaving his children, then setting them free, this watered down all he did; in my min that is

[@kylerrodriguez9706]

Requesting John F Kennedy. And Robert Kennedy

[@o.n.riderchristianauthor.303]

When seen in the light of Washington's freeing of his slaves upon his death, Jefferson's legacy, despite his brilliance, is sadly tarnished.

[@dikiewinn7105]

MAKE DALAI LAMA ON NEXT 🙏🏻😀

[@barryray8915]

Great Man just look around and you can see why

[@Benjahmin1138]

The economics of the republic were in such a state that Jefferson saw the only real way to end slavery was through changes in government. However, if it were not handled extremely carefully, the South would be plunged into an economic depression and lose a large amount of political voice.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Economic depression and loss of political voice vs. treating humans like humans... 🤔

[@Benjahmin1138]

@@emaarredondo-librarian It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Abraham Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation (which didn’t free a single slave) and it directly led to Jim Crow and racial lynchings for 100+ years.

[@brightemerald3924]

Also a large income provided by enslavement.

[@boxbury]

@@emaarredondo-librarianit’s all simple to a simpleton…

[@jpdavis6042]

Please do Ferdinand Marcos former Philippine President

[@TheNosarajr]

A great American hero.

[@ChristianWatts1984]

This was so well done

[@angelalowery4545]

I have the book on his life and been meaning to read..This is much better... Thank you 😂

[@nuttynatsu2354]

As Daveed Diggs puts it in Hamilton's American documentary - "You don't have to separate these things with Jefferson. He can have written this incredible document, and several incredible documents that we all sort of -- with things that we all believe in. And he sucks. You know, I think those are both true, and those have to be both true. I think we really have to stop separating them, because that's where you get into trouble. That's when you stop letting people be whole people."

[@wolfgangschwartzenweintrau6208]

The hipocrasy was it keep us for another or future civil war.

[@3idraven714]

Rack'em up...here come the haters!

[@glendagaskin151]

I suppose nothing has changed today. Power is the root of the evils we see today.

[@aewoody8204]

i’ve live in charlottesville, va all my 24 years of living and i love it! kinda boring but i wouldn’t trade it!

[@leeatterberry1239]

We're moving on up to the top.