Freedom and the Art of Cookery

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today, on Here's Where It Gets Interesting, we returned to Monticello and the lives that were intertwined with third President Thomas Jefferson. The young Hemings family, enslaved by birth, grew up in Jefferson’s plantation estate, Monticello. But James Hemings traveled extensively with Jefferson, spending five years in Paris where he learned to cook from Parisian masters. James was well-educated and skilled, but he wanted more. He wanted his freedom.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, delighted that you're here.
0:04.3	And in our last episode, we took a look at the lives of the women
0:08.1	who influenced the nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson.
0:11.9	During his lifetime, Jefferson relied on the work of over
0:17.5	600 enslaved people and many of their histories went unrecorded andrecognized.
0:24.2	So today we're going to learn more about one of the enslaved families
0:28.4	under Jefferson's roof, the way their lives intertwined with his
0:32.0	and how their rules in American history to serve our attention.
0:37.0	So join me now to hear about another member of the Hemings family because here's where it gets interesting.
0:47.2	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says, podcast. On Monday I told you a little bit about Sally Hamings's life and about Thomas Jefferson's relationship
1:00.1	with her.
1:01.1	It was a physical relationship that started when she was a teenager, about
1:05.2	14 or 15 years old, and he was 44. One that started in France and continued through
1:11.3	all eight years of his presidency and beyond, even though she was his late
1:16.1	wife's half-sister and an enslaved woman in his care.
1:22.2	But what I didn't share was that Sally Hemings wasn't the only Hemings sibling with whom
1:26.9	Thomas Jefferson maintained a close relationship.
1:31.0	So let's rewind a bit have a fresh timeline fill in some gaps in the Hemming's family tree.
1:39.0	John Wales who was Martha Jefferson's father, died in 1773.
1:46.3	If you missed the previous episode, Martha Jefferson was Thomas Jefferson's wife
1:51.2	who died before he became president.
1:54.8	When Martha Jefferson's parents got married, their names were John and Martha, they were
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