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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.
08:16Good luck.
08:27General Fuson 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.
08:37And now the French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, has sent a fleet of 20,000 men to retake the colony from
08:43the rebel slaves.
08:45The southern plantation owners are worried, Thomas.
08:48Haiti is offering citizenship to anyone black who could make it to their shores.
08:58Haiti is a very small island about 1,000 miles away from Washington, but a very big problem for the
09:05Jefferson administration.
09:07It was actually the location of the first truly successful slave revolution.
09:15And one of the things slave-holding white Americans and plantation owners knew is that if just one slave revolution
09:25was successful,
09:26it could topple the entire system in the United States.
09:32Freeman, over here, now.
09:42Look at me.
09:45How much of our conversation did you hear?
09:49Most of it.
09:51I see.
09:53Do 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.
10:08You may be kindred.
10:11Well, I 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.
10:32What 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 people 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 a world to look forward to.
11:07I'm sorry, sir.
11:09My mouth just runs off of me sometimes.
11:11Become a politician, we get paid for it.
11:17All right, John.
11:24Well, Thomas,
11:27what are we going to do about Haiti?
11:31Thomas Jefferson does not want
11:34a Haitian revolution happening in the United States.
11:37Even as he's arguing and writing the Declaration of Independence,
11:41over his lifetime,
11:43he's holding maybe 600 plus slaves.
11:47He's using slaves for his plantation,
11:51Monticello.
11:52He's using slaves at the White House.
11:55And he doesn't want them thinking about revolution.
11:58So he decides to act like Haiti doesn't exist.
12:02He doesn't acknowledge Haiti as a country at all.
12:06The time is coming when we will need to expand our nation.
12:12It is not practical
12:15or reasonable to expect
12:18whites, blacks,
12:21Indians to coexist
12:23if populations grow as they are.
12:26We need space to breathe.
12:30Yeah.
12:33Space to contain.
12:42Go on.
12:43What does it say?
12:44It is well known
12:46that the man
12:46whom it delighteth the 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 Sally Hemings.
12:57And by this wench,
12:59our president has had several...
13:10By this wench,
13:12our president has had several children.
13:15And there is not an individual
13:17in the neighborhood of Charlottesville
13:18who does not believe this story.
13:21Not a few who know it.
13:23The Black Venus
13:27is set to officiate
13:30as housekeeper
13:31at Monticello.
13:34When Mr. Jefferson
13:36reads this article,
13:38he will have leisure
13:39to estimate
13:40how much is lost
13:42or gained
13:44by so many
13:47unprovoked attacks
13:49upon
13:50J.T.
13:53Callender.
13:54In 1802,
13:56James Callender
13:56writes this story
13:57about Thomas Jefferson
13:59and Sally Hemings,
14:01and it's going to become
14:02the first presidential sex scandal.
14:05What will you do?
14:09Nothing.
14:14I shall hold my peace.
14:20Calendar wants to burn everything down.
14:24I will deny him that oxygen.
14:28It's the talk of Washington,
14:30but Jefferson ignores it.
14:33He never talks about it
14:35publicly
14:36one way or the other.
14:39And in fact,
14:40until DNA,
14:42there were
14:42noted historians
14:44who were denying it.
14:45No, Jefferson,
14:46our boy Jefferson
14:47would never have done that.
14:48And there were those of us saying,
14:50Oh, yes, he could.
14:57I knew deep down
14:59that someday
15:00the truth would come out.
15:02That one of his opponents
15:04would discover
15:05our relationship.
15:07Use it to shame him.
15:11I just never guessed
15:12it would hurt this bad.
15:15Stupid, stupid Sally.
15:20He will never
15:22acknowledge me
15:25or the children.
15:28My greatest fear now
15:30is that
15:31he will send us away.
15:35Sell us.
15:37Worse.
15:39Separate me
15:39from the children.
15:41You could run away.
15:45And how far
15:46do you think
15:47I would get
15:47with no money
15:49and the president
15:50of the United States
15:51chasing after me?
15:55There's always Haiti.
15:58Oh.
16:00Anyway,
16:01what's happening
16:02with you and that,
16:03John Freeman?
16:03I saw you both
16:04coming out
16:05of the laundry room together.
16:07You know that's a place
16:08where stuff's supposed
16:08to get cleaner,
16:09not dirtier.
16:11I like him.
16:13A lot.
16:16Do you think
16:17you could speak
16:19with the master
16:19about
16:20taking me
16:21into a service
16:22at the White House
16:23with John?
16:25Seriously?
16:27No harm in asking,
16:28is there?
16:29Oh.
16:30Oh.
16:41Secretary of State.
16:43Ah,
16:44Mr. Monroe,
16:45glad you could make it.
16:46What do you know
16:47about Haiti,
16:48Mr. Monroe?
16:49James Monroe
16:50was a revolutionary
16:51war hero.
16:52He cuts his teeth
16:53as 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 loses Haiti,
17:03he might rethink
17:05France's ambitions
17:06in the new world.
17:08Napoleon tried
17:10to retake Haiti
17:11from enslaved rebels
17:13who had declared
17:15Haiti autonomous
17:16of France
17:17and it failed
17:19spectacularly.
17:21What Napoleon
17:23really needs now
17:24is money.
17:25France-controlled
17:27land in the United States.
17:28United States.
17:29The entire territory
17:31was called
17:32Louisiana.
17:33Today it covers
17:34about 15 U.S. states
17:36from the Gulf of Mexico
17:38up to Canada,
17:39from the Mississippi River
17:40out to the Rocky Mountains.
17:44I'm sorry, sir.
17:46Did you just ask me
17:48to go to France
17:48and buy New Orleans?
17:50Exactly that.
17:51You are authorized
17:52to offer
17:53$10 million.
17:55Thomas,
17:55that isn't...
17:55But he has to throw
17:56in West Florida.
17:57That is insane, Thomas.
17:58We don't have anything
17:59like that in 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.
18:19Courage, mes amis.
18:21Allez, mes braves.
18:22Don't come back
18:23empty-handed.
18:42This is what
18:44Captain Lewis writes.
18:47Is the James River
18:49capable
18:50of cleansing
18:52your soul?
18:59Now, I don't know
19:00about you,
19:02but that sounds
19:03a lot
19:04like a threat.
19:06Hmm.
19:08Callender's report
19:09on Sally Hemings
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
19:26Callender.
19:27I mean,
19:27he was persona non 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.
20:01I did.
20:01You offered Napoleon
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 50 million dollars
20:15isn't for New Orleans.
20:16Well, why in the name
20:17of Hades
20:17is it for, then?
20:28I don't understand.
20:31I don't understand.
20:32Are you saying it?
20:34I did, Thomas.
20:35That crazy French bastard
20:37offered us
20:38the whole
20:39of Louisiana
20:41for 15 million dollars.
20:47Jefferson's
20:48greatest accomplishment
20:49was the Louisiana
20:50purchase,
20:51without a doubt.
20:53The real estate
20:54to steal
20:55of the century
20:56of 15 million dollars
20:58for this huge
21:00tract of land
21:00that effectively
21:01doubled
21:02the size
21:03of the country.
21:04He even threw
21:06in a cup of champagne.
21:14You don't look happy.
21:16What?
21:18Aren't you happy?
21:20This is a good thing.
21:22This is an amazing thing.
21:24Jefferson has made
21:26his reputation
21:27as a strict
21:28constructionist
21:30of the Constitution.
21:32The government
21:33cannot do anything
21:35that is not
21:36explicitly
21:37mentioned
21:39in the Constitution.
21:41Now,
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.
21:52We are
21:54this
21:54close
21:55to the greatest
21:56prize in history.
21:58A vast expanse
21:59that will make America
22:00the most powerful
22:02nation on earth.
22:04We just have to make sure
22:06we bring everyone
22:07on board.
22:08Nothing
22:09can derail this.
22:12Nothing.
22:35James,
22:36would you care
22:38to explain
22:38why we're 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 written
23:03by you to him
23:03before the election.
23:05Letters that prove
23:06that you paid
23:06for his articles
23:08attacking John Adams.
23:12Impossible.
23:13There are no
23:14such letters.
23:19I have read them,
23:20Thomas.
23:22They are undeniably
23:22authentic.
23:24Your 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 me.
23:50Now he can't.
23:55If this gets out,
23:56the Louisiana deal
23:57will 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 just
24:20have to hope
24:21for some
24:22miracle.
24:46Grr.
24:47Grr.
24:57I don't know.
25:03Oh.
25:06Oh.
25:07Oh.
25:20Oh.
25:30Try to sneak up on a man, would you?
25:34Ha ha, you.
25:36I sent you again, did he?
25:38Or you can tell him to go to hell.
25:42Ha ha ha!
25:44Finally found your balls, did you?
26:13I don't know what you're doing.
26:19Your 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.
26:52We 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.
28:36Don't get started here.
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