HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sally Hemings, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine
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Sally hemings - (one of her 8 great grandparents was black) basically white, the. Sister of jefferson"s dead wife, jefferson owned hemmings as a slave, had children with her - those children worked in the home instead of the fields, Cartoon a philosophic cock - harasses jefferson and his affiliation with. Hemings is depicted as a very dark woman with a turban style head dress on, depicts those of african descent as if they are not human in a way, Had 5 children with jefferson, 4 survived, never publicly discussed this. Gabriel is hanged along with 26 others after the police found out about the. People want missouri to be admitted as a free state. More votes are given to slave states. Admitted as a slave state because maine was admitted as a free. Americans will not interfere in european business, if europe stays out of ours state. Even worse than the election of 1820.