Thomas Jefferson at Monticello

[@gregdiamond6023]

Very well done. Thank you Sally was very beautiful!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you for watching!

[@debbiel9843]

Toured here about 20 years ago. This is one place I would really like to get back to now that I've read so much more about all things Jefferson over those years. If you haven't had the chance yet, check out the book 'Saving Monticello' which tells the Levy story. It's incredible what was done to save the property.

[@WalkwithHistory]

I would love to read that.

[@thewriter2549]

Enjoyed this video

[@WalkwithHistory]

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[@MichaelMiller-ny3rr]

Nice Nickel Toss! Thank you for your work. 🙏🇺🇸❤️

[@WalkwithHistory]

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[@GpaEric5931]

That’s a new one for me. Monticello is in the nickel!! Outstanding. Cheers y’all.

[@WalkwithHistory]

So cool!!! Thank you for watching.

[@seanwiley558]

Wow. Great Video! Full of history. Can Do!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thanks!

[@mydaddysgreeneyes]

Thank you for the information about Sally Hemings. Everyone just assumes that Thomas Jefferson fathered her children but that that has never been confirmed is very interesting to me. I love seeing the artifacts and the things that he and his family would have actually handled. To be able to actually lay your hands on history is amazing. And I love the story about his promise to not remarry and his faithfulness to that promise. Hugs to you all!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Happy you enjoyed it! We thought this had so many interesting aspects to it too. 😊

[@Chevyguy-Ray]

Very nice toss with the nickel. Plus I learned how to pronounce the name of President Jefferson's house.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you, it was the only nickel I had so I had to get it the first time.

[@Chevyguy-Ray]

@@WalkwithHistory you definitely did good on making it fly.😁

[@TribeTaz]

Very cool video. I actually got to visit about 10 years ago. Very beautiful there

[@WalkwithHistory]

It is beautiful. Important place in American History.

[@WilliamSaar-qn4uo]

Thats one georgous home of Thomas Jefferson

[@WalkwithHistory]

It is very pretty indeed.

[@kathleendaugherty4218]

What I think it boils down to is this, he was a human being, capable of both good and bad. We have an advantage on Jefferson, we know how everything turns out, but he was in the thick of it. Trying to appease the southern states, saying it is a battle for another time. It is Benjamin Franklin that takes the articles against slavery out of the Constitution. I don't think the USA would be the same place without him.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Well said 😊

[@phyllishershkowitz3806]

Thanks for this. Didn't know Jefferson vowed to his wife not to remarry when she died, and then there was Sally. What a conundrum.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Yes, there is so much controversy around Sally Hemmings and her family connection to the Jeffersons, she must be acknowledged!!!

[@ablewindsor1459]

Jefferson's Library: You can go into the Library of CONGRESS where they have them displayed, the actual ones or period copies that have been gathered up; with blank edge bindings showing what they were also included.

[@WalkwithHistory]

That is so cool, I have to go and see that.

[@GpaEric5931]

Getting a wealth of information today. How the Library of Congress got started. Very cool fact.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Yes, that is a neat historical detail!!!

[@GpaEric5931]

@@WalkwithHistory pluss you tossing the nickel. That was outstanding. Cheers to you.

[@rickwiles8835]

Another interesting video I always assumed Jefferson fathered children with Hemmings I wasn’t aware that was more speculation than provable fact. Another reason Jefferson is considered a paradox is he always wrote and preached the president has ONLY powers granted by the Constitution, yet he purchased Louisiana. Jefferson took a strict, literal view of constitutional powers, meaning that specific powers reserved for the President and Executive Branch needed to be spelled out in the Constitution. The ability to buy property from foreign governments was not among these powers listed in the Constitution. There was a debate in Congress if Jefferson had the authority to buy Louisiana. The debate in the Senate only lasted for two days. On October 20, 1803, the Senate voted for ratification 24-7, and the treaty was signed on October 31, 1803. In the treaty’s aftermath, although some Federalists continued to view the Louisiana Purchase as unconstitutional, the purchase was never questioned in court. If it had been, Jefferson may have come in conflict with his own cousin and political rival, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Also on March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation to end the profitable international slave trade. President Thomas Jefferson, who had promoted the legislation, promptly signed the act, making it law. The act went into effect on January 1, 1808, prohibiting from that time on the importation of African slaves to the United States. Yet as you pointed out, he freed very few of his own slaves.. It boggles the mind. Are you planning to visit any Civil War battlefields? Virginia is littered with them.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you! And oh yes…we have civil war battle fields on the list this year. 😉

[@ablewindsor1459]

A Point of Knowledge...... Virginia has a form Of Term Limits, But only for the Governor, based on Thomas Jefferson's wishes; he served Several terms as the Governor of Virginia, but let others rule between his Periods of Service. Today you can serve for one four year Term, then are banned from running to succeed yourself, but the next Election is yours to run if desired, repeat and repeat again as OLDE Tom did.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Wow that is cool, I did not know that.

[@ablewindsor1459]

@@WalkwithHistory Cheers 🥂😘

[@tracibillington8025]

I am a Carr descendant.

[@SGTDuckButter]

Wow, you are the only ones there.

[@WalkwithHistory]

We got super lucky and there was almost no one there. Thank you for watching!

[@ablewindsor1459]

January through March is a great Time to visit Historical Museums..Done that for five Decades when Possible.... Warning NEVER go to Williamsburg in the first two weeks of August, but the Best is the Fourth of July, everyone thinks it will be packed so they go elsewhere.......

[@TheGreatness-gg1jx]

There is no paradox. 1776 wasn't supposed to happen. America at the time was a British Colony that practiced Old World, British Feudal Serf/Slave Institutions, just like the rest of the world. Jefferson, in writing the DOI, was charting the way FORWARD, not what currently existed because that was in the opposite direction of the vision laid out in the DOI. You don't eliminate, with the stroke of a pen and a war, the inertia of the last 1,000 years of European and World history and labor practices. We continue to fail to understand that America, beginning with the DOI, was a complete REJECTION of the Old World and as our history and world history were quick to show, the Old World did NOT want to comply with this new Vision. Jefferson's personal life was rather complicated, as were many of his actions in American politics but what was never unclear were his views on the basic structures, aims, goals and dangers of America. That's why we can read him and many other Founders right now and they sound like clairvoyants.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Interesting point. Perhaps the paradox is only with our modern day perspective.

[@duck-n-cover477]

The paradox is about debt. Jefferson was a slave to his creditors, hence his comments about banks and corporations. The slaves were collateral. He didn't have the cash to free them and raising the cash would have required liqudating everything. He speculated on some ventures and agricultural technology that didn't yield. It's clear he hoped to keep his lifestyle and to do the right thing, but he could afford it. Instead, the banks kept extending his terms, he maintained status quo deeper in debt, and his estate was insolvent when he passed.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Definitely a complicated era that hopefully e give context to.

[@stevenhood8119]

While a paradox, we must look through the lens of the time, and not the lens of today. Slavery pre-dates the United States by more than a thousand years, we had to fight a civil war to realize what it really was and put an end to it; at least in the United States.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Absolutely. Slavery is old as time as well, anyone conquered was put into enslavement. Slavery has known all races, ages, religions and genders. It was such a common practice that is hard to unravel that or have expectation that human nature could do it in one generation.

[@WilliamSaar-qn4uo]

So it's kept.by the Jefferen decedants

[@WalkwithHistory]

I believe it’s maintained by the Jefferson society and no longer his family.

[@rickybrogden898]

Thomas jefferson is my 1st cousin 7 times removed.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Super cool! Have you been to Monticello?