Ali Velshi
speaker
554 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Ali Velshi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But we know very little about Robert Hemmings.
We do not know his height, we do not know his build, and we do not know the sound of his voice.
But back in 2024...
An artist named Sonia Clark placed video images of the eyes of his descendants in the windows of Declaration House.
Each one was about five feet high, black and white, blinking, looking out onto Market Street.
It was not until 1794, 18 years later, that Robert Hemings would gain his freedom because he found a doctor who was willing to advance him the purchase price.
Jefferson signed Hemings' Deed of Manumission on Christmas Eve, 1794.
Jefferson was not happy about it.
A boy he considered to be his property had found a way to be free.
Robert Hemmings built a life.
He had a family.
He had a wife and children.
For Robert Hemmings, the American experiment had just begun.
December 1860, America was 85 years into the experiment.
and it was failing.
Could this attempt at democracy survive itself?
Could a nation built on the promise of equality survive the fact that it had not delivered it?
Seven states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas decided that the answer to that question was no.
They formed the Confederacy, and their army fired a shot at the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Four more states, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, seceded.
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