Sally Heming
“thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1790 There was not one black person to be seen as Sally Hemings stood in the white mob disguised by her color, shoulder to shoulder with other tense women and men who had come to Jerusalem. It had taken her and Eston one week to get to this place; yet she had felt compelled to be here in the chill of this November day, a long, once elegant cloak covering her from head to foot.
The remnants of Nat Turner's army, twenty-eight in all, had been ...destroyed or apprehended, and thirteen of them, including the woman, had been executed—all without confessing. There remained only Nat Turner; only Nat Turner had confessed, and this was his trial. As reports and rumors of Turner's revolt had spread through Virginia, Sally Hemings had been so affected by it that she, who for almost thirty years, had never ventured outside the boundaries of Monticello, now stood in this place, in awful danger, against the will of her sons.
It was as if Nat Turner's giant hand (for she thought of him as being immense) had pushed her into this heaving crowd that seemed to rest in the hollow of some enormous bloody bosom, now calmed and stroked by the awe of true massacre.MoreLess
The remnants of Nat Turner's army, twenty-eight in all, had been ...destroyed or apprehended, and thirteen of them, including the woman, had been executed—all without confessing. There remained only Nat Turner; only Nat Turner had confessed, and this was his trial. As reports and rumors of Turner's revolt had spread through Virginia, Sally Hemings had been so affected by it that she, who for almost thirty years, had never ventured outside the boundaries of Monticello, now stood in this place, in awful danger, against the will of her sons.
It was as if Nat Turner's giant hand (for she thought of him as being immense) had pushed her into this heaving crowd that seemed to rest in the hollow of some enormous bloody bosom, now calmed and stroked by the awe of true massacre.MoreLess
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