How the enslaved at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ended up inside the house of John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation. Untold American History.
After founding a nonprofit organization, The Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (MOCHA), during the COVID pandemic in 2020, over the past five years, I've repeatedly told anyone who was listening that Clemson University in South Carolina was guilty of hiding monumental American history. Despite having this understanding, while tirelessly pursuing my mission and building the nation's first nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery of SOLUTIONS to End generational obstacles faced by Black Americans, never in my wildest imagination could I have ever envisioned that one day I would be writing a story about definitively connecting my lineage to so many influential historical figures of the past.
Astonishingly, to this day, nothing in my life has been more rewarding than discovering the truth about my ancestor's history.
While tracing my roots, as time progressed, shockingly, the more I searched, the more I discovered. Ultimately, I found out that my direct ancestor's history predates the foundation of the United States of America. Connecting my bloodline all the way back to freedom fighters, writers, and conductors of the Underground Railroad was once a forgone thought that realistically had never even crossed my mind until history led me to the discovery. Yet, today, this is my reality and the revelation of this truth has helped me to understand why I am, who I am.
Sure, finding out that the 7th Vice President of the United States of America, John C. Calhoun was my great-grandfather gave me mixed feelings; but I was never satisfied with stopping my research at uncovering the Calhoun truth alone.
Deep in my heart, I had always believed that there was so much more to unearth that was concealed beyond the relationship of John C. Calhoun in regards to his hidden daughter, my grandmother, Nancy.
After decades of Clemson University writing about the enslavement of my 105-year-old great grandmother Nancy Washington Legree while presenting my family of ancestors as the poster child for slavery at Fort Hill Plantation, in the fall of 2020, I wrote a proposal to name an unnamed bridge in the Calhoun community of Clemson, SC, in honor of the memory of my 6th great-grandmother Nancy Washington Legree. A little over a month later, the Clemson City Council unanimously voted in favor of naming the bridge in the dedication of the memory of my formerly enslaved grandmother Nancy, who Clemson University media had publicized as one of the first enslaved at her father, John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation.
My 105-year-old grandmother Nancy Washington Legree was the daughter of the the 7th Vice President John C. Calhoun.
Immediately following the passing of the Legree Resolution which would name the bridge in honor of my great-grandmother, I would randomly receive phone calls from the incoming mayor of the City of Clemson, Robert Halfacre. I would also have conversations with a black professor at Clemson University who had been working on a Clemson University-sponsored "African American" project.
Unexpectedly, just a short time after receiving the unanimous vote from the city council, shockingly, all calls from the Mayor along with communication from Clemson University Professor Rhondda Thomas, abruptly ended without much of an explanation.
At the time, I was confused as to why, all of a sudden, there was a conspired agenda by Clemson University, the City of Clemson, and other parties with a political interest in the state of South Carolina, to try and cover up my story.
Before I realized exactly what was going on, my mission had been sabotaged, blackballed, and hidden from the public. This was a secret corrupted collaboration involving several highly profiled individuals, institutions, and politicians with a common agenda to bury the revelation of my truth.
To make matters worse, despite a unanimous vote from the city council, the city of Clemson Never Named the bridge.
At the end of the day, this was just another major Injustice committed against Black people in the state of South Carolina that was a common occurrence.
Nevertheless, I soon found out that this was not the first time that leadership in Clemson had voted in favor of naming a roadway, street, or public landmark in honor of a Black person and failed to follow through with their promise. History revealed that only 78 years ago, the same Jim Crow system of hate that still exists at Clemson, one that refuses to acknowledge the truth, found another excuse for not moving forward with honoring yet another one of the notable formerly enslaved individuals at Fort Hill Plantation.
History shows how Clemson has previously broken promises while failing to properly honor Black Americans.
The crippling obstructions that I've faced along the way have been strategically masterminded and the plan to suppress my truth has been carefully orchestrated at the highest levels.
Only after the story of me naming the bridge in honor of my formerly enslaved grandmother had gained attention locally and the views of my news interview had begun to grow, the local news station began to alter, edit, and change the original link to the address of my news interview. Each time that this was done, the total number of views would be reset to zero, which allowed a misleading representation of the total amount of interest garnered by my story. This conspired plan was intended to make it look as though there was very little interest based on the number of people who were watching.
Despite having to fight an uneven uphill battle against racism, I continued to offer SOLUTIONS to every major reoccurring issue that was negatively affecting the lives of Black Americans, and over time, I had amassed over 70 answers to some of our greatest challenges. Still, in the back of my mind, I knew that the whole John C. Calhoun fiasco was only a smoke screen that concealed a deeper truth that led to something that was much more revealing about the truth regarding my ancestors and their roles in American History.
My family's care giving efforts lasted a lifetime for some, while living on the inside of Fort Hill Plantation where they were enslaved to a Vice President of the United States and later the "founder" of Clemson University, Thomas G. Clemson.
In the picture above, my great-grandmother Mary Wright Legree who was the granddaughter of Nancy Washington Legree was born decades after the emancipation. Yet, she is still enslaved at Clemson University as an adult and nearly 50 years after 1865.
Inside of Fort Hill, my family of ancestors cooked, cleaned, and made the house comfortable and operational for the leadership they served.
My family were not only field slaves, but they also nurtured and practically raised the Calhoun children who were also their siblings.
HOW DID MY FAMILY END UP INSIDE OF FORT HILL PLANTATION?
After five years of searching for answers and seeking the truth, just recently, I discovered that my family of Ancestors who were Enslaved inside of the house at Fort Hill Plantation in Clemson, South Carolina were not only the children of Vice President John C. Calhoun but also may have directly descended from the lineage of Sally Hemings, the black woman that the third President of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson fathered children. Ironically, some of my ancestors who ended up enslaved in Clemson may have also been siblings of Salley's mother, Elizabeth Hemings. This is because, when Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, his estate was financially broken, and to try and maintain it, the majority of his slaves were sold to other prominent enslavers, high-ranking politicians, and other esteemed men from all across the South, where Slavery was still legal.
My grandmother Nancy, along with her brother Peter, was born to Martha Elizabeth Lee, who had at least two kids, by John C. Calhoun who raped her as a young girl.
Peter Hemings was the father of Thomas Jefferson and Martha was his wife. There is no actual story that exists that details how my great-grandmother Martha came to Fort Hill Plantation and ended up going straight into the mansion of the United States Vice President. At the end of the day outside of the Calhoun and Jefferson, there are way too many connections and similarities that exist to list at the moment without thoroughly going into detail. Understanding the truth about history, examining the slave listings, and ancestry reports all helped me to uncover this American truth that may eventually lead to the slaves that were owned by the 1st President of the United States of America, George Washington.
However, it is necessary to inform you that I wrote a feature story posted at themochamissions.org about a Supreme Court Judge in North Carolina who wrote in his book that my grandfather and Slaveholder, John C. Calhoun was the father of the President who later went to war to free the enslave, Abraham Lincoln. Disappointingly, most Americans have no clue that Abraham Lincoln's mother ever lived in the state of South Carolina. The truth is, that Nancy Hanks could have potentially been born in South Carolina. Most are also unaware that the mother of Abraham Lincoln was enslaved and worked as an indigenous servant at a local bed & In.
According to the locals whose reports are still online in various newspaper interviews, a young John C. Calhoun met and started a romantic relationship with Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
In his book. Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer, Superior Court Judge Felix Alley produced evidence that my grandfather John C. Calhoun fathered Abraham Lincoln.
Through experience, I've learned whenever history States that very little is known about the parents of an influential figure in American History, it actually means that there is something about the parents of that individual that would identify a hidden truth that unravels a much deeper revelation of history. Unfortunately, most people did not know that Nancy Hanks was enslaved, which would have more than likely meant that her mother would have also been a slave before her. Ab Lincoln's grandmother's name was indeed Bathsheba, and in both of the states of North Carolina and Kentucky revealed that either Nancy Hanks showed up on a Plantation or that she moved in with a relative. However, the stories of her experiences in South Carolina are nearly nonexistent, and this is why a large part of Lincoln's mother's story is missing from American history. The story told by locals exposes how after John C. Calhoun found out that Nancy Hanks was pregnant and her stomach started to show, he then paid a man to take her away.
It is important to remember that, at one time, as a result of slavery, South Carolina was the most Powerful colony and among the richest places in North America. In Clemson, South Carolina, my grandfather Calhoun resided at Fort Hill Plantation as the Vice President of the United States of America. During this time, John C. Calhoun had every bit of the political and financial power to be able to obtain some of the most desired slaves in America. Yet, my family of Ancestors were separated, passed down, and enslaved to multiple President's, military leaders, politicians, and enslavers throughout the 18th &19th centuries. The untold story that remains concealed, is how an unspecified amount of the earliest iconic American pioneers had children by Black women that history refuses to acknowledge.
Please continue to check back with the Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation for all of the facts that will be released in the next few days. My real-life story proves a connection that could potentially lead to the very first President of the United States of America, George Washington. It also proves that Black people were here in America before European arrival. Truth be told after so much of our history had been hidden and erased, Clemson University never thought that a Black man would ever be able to get to the bottom of the foundation on which America was built.
Clemson never gave back nor have they ever acknowledged or honored my family for their personal contributions to the founders of Clemson
No matter how much the black community in and around Clemson is pacified by unimpactful community events that paint the picture
Today, I can say that I've never felt more validated and vindicated than I do right now.
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