Hemings soon afterwards sailed from Williamsburg, never to return. and the child was so great a curiosity that its owner desired to raise it himself that he might see its outcome. Wales to refuse to sell it, for slave masters then, as in later days, had no compunctions of conscience which restrained them from parting mother and child of however tender age but he was restrained by the fact that just about that time amalgamation began. I have been informed that it was not the extra value of the child over other slave children that induced Mr. often for spite, envy, hatred, rewards, and sometimes for little more than endearment or potentially being judged to be a accomplice, and punished by the slave owner.) ( Special note: Chattel slavery could not have existed as it did without a culture of dynamic mass betrayals by and among slaves. Being thwarted in the purchase, and determined to own his own flesh and blood he resolved to take the child by force or stealth, but the knowledge of his intention coming to John Wales' ears, through leaky fellow servants of the mother, she and the child were taken into the "great house" under their master's immediate care. Wales who would not part with the child, though he was offered an extraordinarily large price for her. Hemings happened to be in the port of Williamsburg at the time my grandmother was born, and acknowledging her fatherhood he tried to purchase her of Mr. She was the property of John Wales, a Welch man. My great grandmother was full-blooded African, and possibly a native of that country. He was captain of an English whaling vessel which sailed between England and Williamsburg, Va., then quite a port. He was an Englishman and my great grandfather. "I never knew of but one white man who bore the name of Hemings.
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