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00:07I have missed you, my love.
00:18Now, the president will deny it, of course.
00:23But I went to Monticello.
00:28Visited a nearby tavern there.
00:31Had the same lurid tail time and again.
00:36Thomas Jefferson's bed is kept warm by one Sally Hennig.
00:41A light-skinned woman in his employ.
00:47You're a goddamn liar.
00:49Am I?
00:52You grew up close to Jefferson's plantation in Virginia, didn't you?
01:00You must have heard the stories.
01:04Seen his little brood of mulattoes.
01:09If you squint a bit, you can see the likeness.
01:18But then, what is the point in being the president if you can't take a slave into your bed,
01:27sire your children with her?
01:34You know, during my time in the old me,
01:41I was called upon to kill a number of men.
01:49Not one of that deaths cost me a moment's sleep.
02:06You'd kill me because I tell the truth about the president.
02:10My daughter'll have to kill you, Mr. Callender.
02:14You'll do that all by yourself.
02:25Have another drink on me.
02:33I won't be silenced, Mr. Lewis.
02:37Tell the president James T. Callender is coming for him!
03:00Mr. President.
03:02Sir.
03:03Good morning, John.
03:06What a beautiful day.
03:08It surely is.
03:13Well, that ain't for me.
03:17Oh, well, thank you, honey.
03:19Yeah, most as pretty as you.
03:24Sally Hemings was one of the young female slaves who lived at Monticello,
03:29which, of course, was owned by Thomas Jefferson.
03:34Sally was a mixed-race slave with a white father and an enslaved African mother.
03:44But Hemings was also the half-sister of Jefferson's wife.
03:51So, Thomas Jefferson married one sister who was free and then took as a concubine the other sister.
04:04And there are some accounts that she resembled Thomas Jefferson's wife.
04:29Not that basket.
04:32That's the master's basket.
04:33All the servant's clothes go in the other one.
04:39You must be that new manservant we all heard about.
04:43Yes, I am.
04:45John.
04:46John Freeman.
04:47Well, John Freeman.
04:53You can quit staring and help me dry some laundry.
04:59Melinda Colbert is Sally Hemings' niece.
05:03And she was given as a wedding present when she was about nine years old to Maria Jefferson.
05:13One of her jobs was to be the body servant, to be the companion of Thomas Jefferson's daughter.
05:20So, Melinda worked inside the house.
05:23And she was a friend of Sally.
05:28You didn't have to do this.
05:33Well, I figured I'd do something for you.
05:36And you do something for me.
05:38And what is it you want from me, John Freeman?
05:41I want to know what's going on with the master and that woman.
05:45Well, you're playing with fire there.
05:48You don't talk about that at Monticello.
05:51Unless you're absolutely sure no one is listening.
05:57She has two kids.
05:59Both his.
06:01There were more, but some died young.
06:06And nobody knows about this?
06:08Some of her friends, maybe.
06:10The Madisons, for sure.
06:12They're here all the time.
06:18Sally has her own cabin away from the house in the slave's quarters.
06:23But there's a private passageway.
06:26Leads to the master's property.
06:28Makes it possible for her to visit his rooms when nobody is looking.
06:34Jefferson had successfully kept his relationship with Sally Hemings a secret.
06:39However, Jefferson does have enemies.
06:44There are people in the United States who do not like Thomas Jefferson
06:48and are looking for anything they can find to help tear him down.
07:00Captain Lewis.
07:02I'm disappointed.
07:05You're supposed to be a man of action.
07:07I expected you to return from your mission victorious,
07:09not waving the white flag of surrender.
07:13I made their proposal to Callender.
07:15As you asked, he declined.
07:21It's a trouble with drunks.
07:23There's no reason it will.
07:26You made a number of malicious accusations.
07:30About your household staff.
07:34About your relationship.
07:36For one in particular.
07:41No one would ever believe him.
07:43Let him shoot his mouth off.
07:46Are you certain, Mr. President?
07:50There are other more persuasive avenues that could be explored.
08:00I don't think there'll be a need for violence, Captain.
08:05At least not yet.
08:09No, Callender's a loud mouth.
08:12Give him a week and you'll come crawling back.
08:15Beg him for that $50.
08:23All right.
08:28General Leverture has almost complete control of the island.
08:32He's freed over half a million slaves,
08:34including the ones that he's released from Santa Domingo.
08:37now the french emperor napoleon bonaparte has sent a fleet of 20 000 men to retake the colony
08:43from the rebel slaves the southern plantation owners are worried thomas haiti is offering
08:50citizenship to anyone black who could make it to their shores
08:58haiti is a very small island about a thousand miles away from washington but a very big problem
09:04for the jefferson administration it was actually the location of the first truly successful
09:12slave revolution and one of the things slave holding white americans and plantation owners
09:20knew is that if just one slave revolution was successful it could topple the entire system
09:28in the united states freeman over here now
09:42look at me
09:45how much of our conversation did you hear most of it
09:51i see do you know about the slave rebellion in haiti freeman
09:58i guess i do
10:00there ain't too many black folk that i haven't heard
10:02and what do they say about it
10:06it's all right john you may be candid
10:11well
10:12i guess most folk think the haitians are heroes
10:16like spartacus and his followers back in the roman times
10:20except spartacus was what
10:22didn't stop the romans from killing them though did it
10:28go on
10:30maybe the romans were scared
10:33what a slave might do to those who kept them in chains
10:37maybe slavery ain't a black or white thing
10:40it's about
10:41people making money
10:44pure and simple
10:48truth is sir
10:50i believe in all those powerful things you said
10:53about we all being born equal
10:57that's the world to look forward to
11:07i'm sorry sir
11:08my mouth just runs off of me sometimes
11:11become a politician
11:13we get paid for it
11:17all right john
11:25well thomas
11:27what are we going to do about haiti
11:30thomas jefferson
11:32does not want
11:34a haitian revolution
11:36happening in the united states
11:37even as he's arguing and writing the declaration of independence
11:41over his lifetime
11:43he's holding
11:44maybe 600 plus slaves
11:46he's using slaves
11:49for his plantation
11:50monicello
11:51he's using slaves
11:53at the white house
11:55and he doesn't want them
11:56thinking about revolution
11:58so he decides
11:59to act like haiti
12:01doesn't exist
12:02he doesn't acknowledge
12:03haiti as a country at all
12:06the time is coming
12:08when we will need
12:09to expand our nation
12:12it is not practical
12:15or reasonable
12:17to expect
12:18whites
12:19blacks
12:21indians to co-exist
12:23if populations
12:24grow as they are
12:26we need space to breathe
12:33space to contain
12:43go on
12:43what does it say
12:44it is well known
12:46that the man
12:46whom it delighteth
12:47the people to honor
12:48keeps
12:49and for many years past
12:51has kept
12:51as his concubine
12:53one of his own slaves
12:55her name is
12:56sally hemmings
12:57and by this wench
12:59our president
12:59has had several
13:10by this wench
13:12our president
13:13has had several
13:14children
13:15and there is not
13:16an individual
13:17in the neighborhood
13:17of charlottesville
13:18who does not believe
13:19this story
13:21not a few
13:21who know it
13:22the black venus
13:27is said to officiate
13:30as housekeeper
13:31at monticello
13:32when mr jefferson
13:36reads this article
13:37he will have
13:39leisure to estimate
13:40how much
13:42is lost
13:42or gained
13:43by so many
13:47unprovoked attacks
13:49upon
13:50jt
13:51calendar
13:53in 1802
13:55james calendar
13:56writes this story
13:57about
13:58thomas jefferson
13:59and sally hemmings
14:01and it's going to become
14:02the first presidential
14:03sex scandal
14:04what'll you do
14:09nothing
14:14i shall hold
14:16my peace
14:20calendar
14:21wants to burn
14:21everything down
14:24i will deny
14:26him
14:26that oxygen
14:28it's
14:29the talk
14:30of washington
14:30but
14:31jefferson
14:32ignores it
14:33he never
14:34talks about it
14:35publicly
14:36one way
14:37or the other
14:38and in fact
14:40until
14:41dna
14:41there were
14:42noted historians
14:44who were denying it
14:45our boy jefferson
14:47would never
14:48have done that
14:48and there were
14:49those of us
14:49saying
14:50oh yes
14:51he could
14:57i knew
14:58deep down
14:59that someday
15:00the truth
15:00would come out
15:02that one of his
15:03opponents
15:04would discover
15:05our relationship
15:07use it
15:08to shame
15:08him
15:11i just never
15:12guessed it
15:12would hurt
15:13this path
15:15stupid
15:16stupid
15:17sally
15:19he will
15:20never
15:22acknowledge
15:23me
15:25or the
15:26children
15:28my greatest
15:29fear now
15:30is that
15:32he will
15:32send us
15:33away
15:35sell us
15:37worse
15:38separate me
15:39from the
15:40children
15:41you could
15:42run away
15:45and how far
15:46do you think
15:47i would get
15:47with no money
15:49and the
15:50president of the
15:50united states
15:51chasing after
15:52me
15:55there's always
15:56hating
15:59anyway
16:01what's happening
16:02with you and
16:02that john
16:03frank
16:03i saw you
16:04both coming
16:05out of the
16:05laundry room
16:06together
16:06you know
16:07that's a place
16:08where stuff's
16:08supposed to get
16:09cleaner not
16:09dirtier
16:11i like him
16:13a lot
16:16do you think
16:17you could speak
16:19with the master
16:19about taking me
16:21into a service
16:22at the white
16:22house
16:23with john
16:25seriously
16:26no harm in
16:28asking is there
16:29oh
16:41secretary of state
16:43ah mr munro
16:44glad you could
16:45make it
16:46what do you
16:46know about
16:47haiti
16:48mr munro
16:48james munro
16:50was a revolutionary
16:51war hero
16:52he cuts his
16:53teeth as a diplomat
16:54in france
16:55during the 1790s
16:56i know that
16:57napoleon bonaparte's
16:58forces there
16:59have been decimated
17:00by disease
17:01and if he
17:02loses haiti
17:03he might
17:04rethink france's
17:05ambitions
17:06in the new
17:07world
17:09napoleon
17:10tried to retake
17:11haiti
17:11from enslaved
17:13rebels
17:13who had
17:14declared haiti
17:16autonomous
17:16of france
17:17and it
17:19failed
17:19spectacularly
17:21what napoleon
17:23really needs
17:23now
17:24is money
17:25france
17:26controlled
17:27land
17:27in the united
17:28states
17:29the entire
17:30territory
17:31was called
17:32louisiana
17:32today it
17:33covers about
17:3415 u.s.
17:35states
17:36from the
17:37gulf of mexico
17:38up to canada
17:39from the
17:39mississippi river
17:40out to the
17:41rocky mountains
17:44i'm sorry
17:45sir
17:46did you just
17:47ask me to go
17:48to france
17:48and buy
17:49new orleans
17:50exactly that
17:51you are authorized
17:52to offer
17:5310 million
17:54dollars
17:55but he has to
17:56throw in west florida
17:57that is insane
17:58thomas
17:58we don't have
17:59anything like that
17:59in ready cash
18:00and even if we did
18:01is it even legal
18:02for the president
18:03to purchase territory
18:04without approval
18:05from congress
18:06it is the destiny
18:07of this country
18:08to grow larger
18:09that cannot be achieved
18:10if we allow foreign powers
18:11to control our waterways
18:13napoleon will listen
18:15he's busy conquering europe
18:17god knows he needs the money
18:18courage mes amis
18:20allez mes braves
18:22don't come back empty-handed
18:41you see this
18:42is what captain lewis writes
18:47is the james river
18:49capable
18:50of cleansing
18:52your soul
18:59now i don't know
19:00about you
19:01but that sounds
19:03a lot
19:04like a threat
19:05hmm
19:08calendar's report
19:09on sally hemmings
19:10is a great threat
19:11to thomas jefferson
19:13jefferson himself
19:14is furious
19:15that this is reported
19:16in the news
19:20maybe i should ask
19:21the fool himself
19:24no one would publish
19:26calendar
19:26and he was persona
19:28non grata
19:28to everybody
19:29because he could turn
19:31from one side
19:32to the other
19:39oh
19:41george
19:47when your own lawyer
19:48beats you up
19:49as george hay did
19:51you're probably
19:52not a great guy
19:55i'm sorry gentlemen
19:56i think there's been
19:57some confusion
19:58you did just say
19:5915 million
20:00i did
20:01you offered
20:02napoleon
20:0315 million dollars
20:04for new orleans
20:05and west florida
20:07when we agreed
20:0810 was our limit
20:10sorry thomas
20:11you misunderstand
20:12the uh
20:12the 50 million dollars
20:14isn't for new orleans
20:16well why in the name
20:17the haters is it for
20:18then
20:28i don't understand
20:31are you saying it
20:33thomas
20:34that crazy french bastard
20:37offered us
20:38the whole
20:39of louisiana
20:41for 15 million dollars
20:46jefferson's
20:47greatest accomplishment
20:49was the louisiana
20:50purchase
20:51without a doubt
20:52the real estate
20:54to steal
20:55of the century
20:56of 15 million dollars
20:58for this huge tract
21:00of land
21:00that effectively
21:01doubled
21:02the size
21:03of the country
21:04he even threw
21:06a cup of champagne
21:14you don't look happy
21:16what
21:18aren't you happy
21:20this is a good thing
21:21this is an amazing thing
21:23jefferson has made
21:26his reputation
21:27as a strict
21:28constructionist
21:30of the constitution
21:31the government
21:33cannot do
21:34anything
21:35that is not
21:36explicitly
21:37mentioned
21:39in the constitution
21:40now
21:42he spent
21:4315 million dollars
21:45purchasing
21:46louisiana
21:47and there's nothing
21:49that says
21:49the president
21:50can do this
21:51we
21:53are
21:54this
21:54close
21:55to the greatest
21:56prize in history
21:57a vast expanse
21:59that will make
22:00america
22:00the most powerful
22:02nation on earth
22:04we just have to make
22:05sure
22:06we bring everyone
22:07on board
22:08nothing
22:09can derail this
22:12nothing
22:34james
22:36would you care
22:38to explain
22:38why are we meeting
22:39in a church
22:41why all the cloak
22:43and dagger
22:46i have bad news
22:49something i thought
22:50better discussed
22:51away from the white house
22:56it's calendar
22:58he approached me
22:59wanting to speak
23:01he's in possession
23:02of letters
23:02written by you
23:03to him before
23:03the election
23:04letters that prove
23:06that you paid
23:06for his
23:07articles
23:08attacking
23:09john adams
23:12impossible
23:13there are no
23:14such letters
23:19i have read them
23:20thomas
23:21they are undeniably
23:22authentic
23:23your hand
23:26calendar says
23:27that he has
23:27countless others
23:28hidden away
23:30he's threatening
23:31to release them
23:31all to the press
23:40well
23:43that's that
23:47he said
23:48he would ruin
23:49me
23:49now he can't
23:55if this gets out
23:56the louisiana
23:57deal will collapse
24:07maybe he can be
24:08reasoned with
24:11that has been
24:12attempted
24:14it's not a man
24:15to be reasoned with
24:19then we should
24:20just have to
24:21hope for some
24:22miracle
24:51miracle
24:56miracle
24:57miracle
25:04Oh, my God.
25:30Try to sneak up on a man, would you?
25:34Ah, you.
25:36I sent you again, did he?
25:38Well, you can tell him to go to hell.
25:44Finally found your balls, did you?
26:14James?
26:18James, your letter says you have found a solution to our Louisiana conundrum.
26:25Yes.
26:27Well, your opponents in New England are refusing to support the Louisiana purchase.
26:33Some fear that the power of the existing states will be diluted, that their economic dominance will be curtailed.
26:39Others insist that the Constitution gives you no such power.
26:43Now, Napoleon Bonaparte has told our French embassy that unless we pay up immediately, the deal is off the table.
26:49Dear Lord, James, none of that sounds like a solution.
26:52You know, we need to reframe the conversation.
26:54The Constitution says that the president has the power to make international treaties.
27:03How does that help us?
27:05Well, we need to think of the purchase not as a transaction, but as a treaty with France.
27:14James Madison is adamant that this is a treaty and that land exchanges have always been parts of treaties and
27:20international negotiations.
27:24That is brilliant.
27:30You are a genius.
27:40James?
27:41Is this something else?
27:44James Callender is dead.
27:47They found him drowned in the James River.
27:50Oh, that's terrible.
27:55Alcohol-related?
27:57Seems that way.
27:59They found him drowned in three feet of the James River.
28:06And they declared it death by misadventure, that he had gotten drunk, stumbled into the water, passed out, and died
28:16from this.
28:17The Federalist had a different interpretation, that foul play had been involved by someone devoted to Jefferson, but it never
28:28went anywhere.
28:30Well, the world moves on.
28:34We have great tasks to perform.
28:36Meanwhile, him, higher.
28:39Oh.
28:39What the hell?
28:39Oh.
28:41You
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