First Ladies of the USA 1/6: American Queens (1789-1825)
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When the United States elects a new president, they are often also voting for their spouse. But 11 first ladies were not the wives but the daughters, sisters, or other relatives of the commander in chief. The unelected, unpaid white house hostesses have the considerable duty of smoothing the way for diplomacy, preserving white house history, and influencing the nation as fashion icons, social activists and arbitrates of change. Some have had major influence on policy in a nation where women are still underrepresented in government. In this 6 part series we'll meet the 53 fascinating women who have served as first lady of the United States of America and see how the role has evolved over the past 250 years.
First Ladies of the USA Part 1/6: American Queens (1789-1825)
Martha Washington
Abigail Adams
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Dolly Madison
Elizabeth Monroe
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Even though Sally Hemmings was a child not an adult woman, thank you for not sugar coating the truth about her and Jefferson's "relationship".
She sugar coated it in a previous video about sally Hemings but she used the correct terminology this time so I’m glad!
@@maplesyrup6052 A learning person is a growing person.
The whole thing makes me sick and sad for enslaved people. :(
@@kristybryan9902 Same. And the fact that Sally was a cousin of Jefferson's first wife means that Sally's father was a white man who likely also forced her enslaved mom into a sexual relationship. Ugh, all this makes me so sick. I feel so bad for her, her mom, and all the Black people, esp. Black women. No wonder the society is so broken to this day. Major change, repair, rebuild and healing needed.
@@est9949Sally was the half sister of Jefferson's wife
Martha Jefferson : the rumors about my father are not true.
DNA : I'm about to ruin this whole girl's career 😈😈😈
Oh, I think she knew they were true. There were derisive comments among D.C. citizens about her denials of what everyone knew was true. Much is made of her stating to her father, while in France, that she wished all slaves were free; however her daughter described an incident where she had to hold down a slave (one assumes a female) while her mother whipped the slave severely. T. Jefferson’s will stipulated Sally Hemings be freed, but not during his daughter’s lifetime. So Sally had awhile to wait.
Thank you for not saying that Jefferson had an “affair” or “relationship” with Sally Hemings. It was coercion at best with the monumental imbalance of power there.
You know that’s how our current Vice President got where she got? All women usually get where they are through sexual coercion. How do you know Sally Hemings didn’t seduce Jefferson?
Well...it still was an extramarital affair. One of several reasons why Jefferson has never been my favorite Founding Father. Give me John Adams or good ol' George Washington, thank you very much.
@@thunderbird1921 both of them were shitty also
@@Beth-mi2hf How was John Adams horrible? He probably had one of the best marriages of any Founding Father and never owned slaves. Apart from the slave owning issue that actually he himself emotionally struggled with, I don't see how Washington was that horrible either.
Exactly! I'm so sick of people romanticizing that relationship.
Great video! Would like to add tho that Sally Hemings was not a woman, she was a child/teen which I feel is an important distinction since she was only 14 when the assault began
She was 14 when she went to France. They stayed there for about two years. Most historians think the relationship started at the end of their time in France or shortly after returning to the US. So she’d be around 16 when it became sexual
@@haleysneet still a child/teen
And she was a slave.
@@haleysneet I believe she already pregnant by the time they returned to the US.
@@kellywolstenholme8134 girls who have started their periods are biologically women.
Somewhat recently, renovations in Monticello took a dark turn. While revamping the men's room in the basement, a floor under the floor was discovered. This was the room where Sally Hemmings was kept. This discovery removed any doubts about the relationship between Jefferson and Hemmings.
I always thought they were in love
I have always found the role of The First Lady really interesting. Here in the UK the spouse of the Prime Minister is not that much of a prominent figure. They are quite simply just the spouse of the Prime Minister. They may sometimes be patrons of charities and stuff and some Prime Ministers do marry others within the political sphere but most of the time the spouse and family of the Prime Minister stay in the background. They are not a political figure in their own right.
And truthfully, there’s nothing really on paper about First Ladies and what they can do
Because, historically, the Queen Consort was considered to be the leader of social society since she was the woman of highest rank and also outranking the wife of the Prime Minister.
What you have to remember is that we got rid of the monarchy, but there is still a little of monarchical vibe about our government. The president is head of state with king like powers. First Ladies May have temporary position, but while they are in the WH, they are treated like queens.
Ok I cannot be the only one who notices that patsy’s husband is drawn with an oversized head and small hands…… was this an accurate painting or was the picture reduced in size for copyright or something similar?
I hear how important the first ladies have always but I have never really seen it first hand. I guess Michelle Obama put herself out there a lot beyond that I don't see the first ladies doing much...
“She was expelled from the Quaker Society of Friends for marrying outside of her faith.”
Well that doesn’t sound very… friendly.
I’ll see myself out
🥁 badum tss
Well they also did not like the slavery thing, so...
People took religion much more seriously back then and religiously mixed marriages were frequently frowned on. As recently as the 1950s my aunt Mary caused a small family scandal by marrying a Methodist. (Our people were Irish Catholics.)
@@jec1ny As recently as the early 00s my in-laws had a fit when my now-husband and I got engaged because he was raised Catholic and I was raised Protestant (I was raised a mix of Southern Baptist and Lutheran).
Neither my husband nor I were/are religious ourselves, but that didn’t matter to my in-laws. They expected him to marry a “nice Catholic girl” and since my dad is Baptist, that makes me Baptist which is the worst kind of Christian I could possibly be to them.
They treated me like crap for a long time because of it. Until my husband told his parents to knock it off or he was going to cut them out of his life because he’s always going to choose his soon-to-be wife over them.
That mostly shut them up. As long as other people are around.
from what Little I have heard as an Australian where I don't think we have any Quaker, British Quaker are more community lead, with no real leaders, and American Quaker are more isolationist?
British Quaker were doing different ethnic marriages and gay marriage before it was legal, letting people marry around the loophole.
Refusing to hold an office for life and to be King of this new nation really sets up a wheel of democracy. What a way to go!
I'm of the age to have swallowed the UDC's narrative of Jefferson and Sally, "an illegal love match". Now, I'm intelligent and well-read enough to realize that no matter what the emotional story is, at best, the relationship was like having a favorite "marital aid". At worst, it was exactly as you described, coerced, long-term, and nonconsensual.
Sally also had a chance to be free when she was in France with Jefferson one time. But she decided to return to America with him. I’m sure this had todo with her family more so than her love of Jefferson.
Even if it was “concensual”, her age and the fact she was in bondage negates all of that. A child nor a slave can properly consent, if at all. It’s disgusting how people devalue Hemings for the purpose of defending Thomas.
@@haleysneet I think you also upplay the normality of if. Slave owners had affairs with their slaves sure, but when someone with authority abuses their power toward someone with little power, financial responsibility, and in bonds, it’s no longer a relationship that is okay just because it was of its time. The same is true with age. People got married young in the 1800’s, but usually the men they married were only a couple years their senior. This wasn’t the Middle Ages where 12 year old girls married 35-50 year olds. It was an age range of 16-20 with 19-23.
@@thelanktheist2626 you know nothing of history and your ignorance shows it. 16 year olds regularly married men in their 40’s, even 50’s, fairly regularly. Especially in early American history. Pick up a book for once instead of being a keyboard warrior!
@@kayzeaza I read she made a deal with Jefferson. The deal was she'd stay with him, if he agreed to free their slave children after his death. He agreed. Can't remember if he actually did have that in his will, or if they were actually freed.
Dolley Madison has always been my favourite first lady - invented the job, quite literally helped to building Washington DC by fundraising and campaigning, understood the importance of establishing symbols and the tools for doing so, helped set the overall "style" and aesthetics of the nation, survivor. Don't get me wrong, I get the love for Abigail Adams and she deserves it. But my heart belongs to Dolley.
Dolley was called on by presidents and First Ladies until she died. She was bought in by new First Ladies to learn everything there was to know about the job...especially by Presidents who had lost their own wives or had wives too frail to do the job.Dolley relished in her popularity in Washington.
Dolley Madison was the best!! I saw one of her gown at the Smithsonian and fell in love with it. And Abigail Adams must be rolling her grave to what's going on now..
I’m so weird, idk why I laughed😭
John Parke Custis' widow, Eleanor, is my 8th great-grandmother. (I'm a descendant of a son & a daughter from her 2nd marriage to Dr. David Stuart.)
I'm currently delving into family records to look up more about her life, because she is, for me, a representation of so many young people in early America: you are British subjects for your whole life, and suddenly caught up in the Revolutionary War. Eleanor was also Chief Mourner at Washington's funeral in 1799.
I also wanted to thank you for clearing up some myths about the Washingtons, especially with regards to enslaved people, and the laws of Pennsylvania regarding residency & enslavement.
Ona Judge's story is one of great courage, resilence, and bravery in the face of a slave society, and Washington's obsession with "returning her" is nothing short of appallingly disgusting.
Oh yay! I always did want a good series about all American First Ladies! Thanks Lindsey ❤️
Now I know where I’ve seen the paining of Abigail Adams, I saw it at one of the Bank of America bank branches
I like the fact that George Washington was heavily devoted to his country and his wife- Sike guy owned slaves and didn’t do anything about tht 😌
It’s a shame he didn’t speak out against slavery and owned slaves cause it makes him a man of contradictions.
He was a man of his time, we can’t apply our morals or what we believe to those of the past.
@@femmefatale71 Hitler was never a man. Or a man at any time. He was a monster. Please don't compare.
@@80sGamerLady
Don’t tell people what to say when you can’t understand what she said in the first place.
@@80sGamerLady anybody who believes that POC should be enslaved and abused is a monster, doesn’t matter if he was even the president.
1:28 to 1:35 was the sickest burn I've heard yet for my country ,and I cannot be mad at all. It was so eloquently spoken and polite.
Love you're channel please keep it coming.
Like when crooked appeared ? Sickest burn ? What ?
What burn? Speaking well of your country? Is this an inside American joke?
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We definitely dodged a bullet with corrupt Hillary... Unfortunately we paying the price with Biden... Shameful!!!
God help our country...
I'm so excited for this series!! I especially can't wait until you talk about Eleanor Roosevelt! She's my favorite First Lady
Same the first lady of the world
Isn’t she everybody’s? Her only failing was not cold cocking old Frankie for being a sexual predator. For an insight to this watch Hyde Park on the Hudson. He routinely coerced women over whom he exercised power. I was shocked, but in spite of this, as a president I will always believe he and his programs saved the country; much more that that ugly pansy assed Lincoln. However for honor and courage, no one will ever beat Truman, in my opinion.
So nervous to hear about Mary Todd Lincoln. So tragic
Martha Washington was known as Lady Washington. Ironically since the Hebrew/Aramaic meaning of the name Martha is "lady."
Interesting to hear some of descendants of pocahontas' are also descendants of tomas. I would love to hear more in detail about pocahontas descendants
that does sound like a lovelyyy video! it's a story that few people tell so let's hope Lindsay gives it a shot :)
@@estert.5776 if people say pocahontas is not a royal...she is a fricing disney princess so close enough 😉
@@SallyTheWolf She counts as royalty to me as she was an Indian Chiefs daughter so it's an equivalent rank to a princess.
@@lightyagami3492 not even🤦🤣 shows your lack of understanding of our cultures. Quit putting your eurocentric ideals on our people. Also decolonization and land back✊
She only had one kid before she died, so he must have got around.
I hope one day soon, I as an American, live to see the first ever first gentleman.
I do think we will see it soon but im not gonna vote for a candidate based on that fact. It will be a situation where i think their wife/ sister/ mother is the best candidate for the job.
@@lightyagami3492
When did I ever say that was my reason for voting?
@@brettlarch8050 Never said you did. I was just stating my conditions on voting in general. Voting for a candidate based on just historic reasons is irresponsible.
@@lightyagami3492
That part I agree on, however your wording and response made me think you thought that’s what I said. Let bygones be bygones as the British say.
Isn’t there like a 2nd gentlemen thing now?
The reason why we rejected a king is the King George III experience. I am a middle school social studies teacher. :) Great you covered Dolly getting the things out of the White House before the British torched it. Abby Addams reminded John to, "remember the ladies." Lucy Hayes banned alcohol in the White House, and earned the title, Lemonade Lucy. I took a class on First Ladies. They sometimes get ignored in all the talk on Presidents. I wanted to name my cat after Eleanor, but my then girlfriend said no. I cannot wait until her cover her. She was really Franklin's eyes and ears, traveling the country to take the pulse, see what was going on. Jackie, Michelle, etc.
These women worked so hard and hostessed the White House so gracefully, love the light being shed on them!
The way you tell these stories just brings the past bursting back to life! I’m so happy I found this channel.
great piece, lindsay; looking forward to future instalments!
YESSSS THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I was looking forward to this!
Thank you for doing videos on the First Ladies.
This is going to be an interesting series. Thank you!
What an awesome idea for series! Looking forward to all of them!
I am so glad you are doing this series on 1st ladies I find so interesting. Thank you & can’t wait to see the next one!!
Thank you so much, Lindsay, this is one of my favorite topics. ❤️
I'm SOOO excited for this series!
Next series french queens or holy Roman empresses
This was so interesting, I love hearing about our American history! Can't wait for the next one!
Thank you so much for making this video!
I enjoyed this, Lindsey. Thank you😊
Amazing job once again Lindsay!! 👏👏 I hope a series for the US presidents themselves follows up!
Im very happy that this channel does not sugarcoat nor hides the fact the presidents historical use of slaves.
This was very interesting and somethings I never knew about these ladies. Thanks for doing this.
I love your channel. History has always been an interest of mine. Even my husband has started watching this channel with me.
So very interesting and well done!
yay I am on time this sure be good I am on my lunch break from cleaning house and working outside linsey thanks for this video
I just love your channel so much!! ❤ 💗 you never disappoint!!!
Great series! This episode makes me want a video on Theodosia Burr.
Very Interesting! I have been fortunate enough to visit the homes of Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe. All beautiful estates.
Lindsay holiday I love your videos always learn something new
Thank you very much! I really enjoyed this video!
Hey Jaden how are you
Thank you for showing these. I'm going to Mt Vernon in April
this is going to be so good!
Yeeessss!!! Been waiting for this series for so long! ❤️
Loved the video as usual, I’m always waiting for the next episode and am extremely excited when I see a new one!
Though I must say… the picture if Abigail and John Adams they looked creepily
Similar to one another, it was quite funny to look at!
Wonderful!
I love that you always tell the Stuff You Missed in History class style truth. History should always be told warts and all. It's only then that we'll all learn and grow from it. ❤️
Very interesting!
Loving your latest videos on the First Ladies of the USA, however just managed to find the videos 1-4, as I’m finding it hard to location the remaining videos? Just watching the First Ladies on paramount such a remarkable coincidence, watching your videos and the tv show running in correlation.. I do hope you have a 5&6 video..
Soo interesting to learn about as an English person we dont tend to learn about American history. It isn’t much surprising really but crazy to see how recent all this happened, comparatively to European history we do learn about. Great video!
Your a VERY GOOD NARATOR.
Thanks!
Love it!!!
Yaaaaaaaay! I love to take my History Tea Time at my brunch for one 🖤
Love history tea time!!!
Oooo I been waiting for this one
Martha Washington amazed me.
I would love one for the second ladies!
Finally this is the video that I was yearning for thank you so much Miss Holiday I can’t wait for more of your videos also when you’re done with the series could you please make a video of Queen Mary the first or can you also talk about the 1930s
I love how determined and strong all of these beautiful ladies were, and I am honored that they helped lead our nation!
Can you make about queen consort of france? It will be perfect
Yaaasss! This is what I've been waiting for. I've studied first ladies since I was a kid and have done many programs for civic groups about them. I love talking about the ones that no one knows about. My first question always is, "How many first ladies before Eleanor Roosevelt can you name?" I tell them that there should be at least four. Some people can name, maybe, one more because they are a distant relative and some struggle with naming four. LOL! The audiences have always been so enthusiastic. Thanks for putting this together.
I must be a freak because I can name all Presidents and first ladies...IN ORDER! And I am an Australian! Year ago I found the biggest book on the First Ladies. I read it at least once a year. I often fall asleep reading ...so I learned quickly to read that one sideways! I cant tell you how many times I woke myself up as this HUGE book fell on my face!!
patreon was down Sunday night
I have seen a relatively short CZcams video about the first ladies, so I am looking forward to your in depth presentation!
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NEW LINDSAY LET'S GOOOOO!!! US CONTENT??
There is a photo mistake at the ending of the video. Mrs Holiday mentions about a teacher as First Lady(Abigail Fillmore), but the photograph is not of her but famed Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind.
Jefferson's kids were cousin-siblings... Ewwwwwwwwwwwww... Talk about gross... Plus Jefferson was 30 years older than Sally Hemings...
They also spent a good portion of their lives as their father’s slaves, didn’t they?
@@emilybarclay8831 true. But the fact that their Dad was a middle aged man messing with a teenaged girl- their Mom- is just as sickening... Ick!!! I liked older men as a teenager but not in their 40s or older. That would be like messing with my own Dad. Then the man was her deceased older half sister's widower. That makes it even creepier... Ugh!!!! No wonder the Hemings kids were a bit off psychologically (some passing for White, some saying they were Black. Just all confused & confusing to modern people)...
I like it when you do other places besides England.
I LONG to see her do the Kingdom of Prussia at some point, the Hohenzollerns were truly one of the most fascinating royal families in European history. I may be a little biased though since one of my ancestors came from there.
I have lived in VA my whole life and have never been to Mt. Vernon, Monticello or Hollywood Cemetery.
Whatever you do don't pay for tour outside of Mount Vernon. Take the Metro - there's a direct stop. 😉 Enjoy!
Abagail’s home is here in my town.
Aww, Thanks 👍🇺🇲
I just came back from a trip visiting all of the sites of these wonderful ladies’ husbands over shadowing them, so it is so refreshing to see light shed on their dedicated work as well.
Please do a video on sally hemmings and her descendants
Is the third child of John and Abigail Adam's named Grace or Susanna? Or both? You said Grace, but, Susanna is listed as the third.
American Queens! Love it!
Ya know I kinda wanna see a series in tandem with this one that shows which American presidents overlapped with what British royal and dynasty and if they interacted with each other at all. I think that would be really cool. See how somethings overlapped betwixt British Royal and American Presidential History
Hey idk if you cover this but the royal family like all weddings rings
Could you do a series on where the previous constituent royalty of the German Confederation are now?
So wonderful to see American History centering the women!
Damn now I want a presidents series
Washington lived the dream. I hope to one day marry a rich widow of my own!
I didn't know the Munroes where buried @ Hollywood cemetery. I'm about 70 mi. from Richmond
Cool
Finally a usa video
The script says 'Grace', the graphic says 'Susanna'...
Susanna is correct. I'm quite a fan of the Adams' and have read William McCollough's excellent biography of John.
That portrait of Patsy's husband was an unexpected treat
That's a pretty cool fact. Cool Fact Being: That Patsy´s husband is a descendent of Pocahontas (John Rolfe isn´t mentioned here, but he is the husband of Pocahontas). You can see it starting
16:19.
YAAY US HISTORY!!! ⭐️🌟🥰
19:20 they never mentioned that in Hamilton
Would you please cover Hamilton?
My kids are descended from George Washington's mother Mary Ball Washington.
I stop caring about any of these women when I heard "Plantations" and "Enslaved people ."
Not all of them owned enslaved people
@@RandomVidsforthought The Adams were definitely anti-slavery, especially Abigail.
@@TracyJean1972 That's what my reply meant
You look at these first few entries early America and Europe were not really that different when regards to wealth
Thank you for doing a series about The first ladies of the United States of America. I'm not surprised that the wives of the first five presidents were slave owners because my ancestors were slaves Long ago.
John and Abigail Adams did not own slaves.
Sadly, slavery or serfdom was common in nearly every major land in the world at that time. One of the only exceptions might be the Kingdom of Prussia, but I could be mistaken. At least John and Abigail Adams weren't slave owners.
*Oh Martha W - slavery is bad sis... really bad...
*Oh Abbey - you did yellow journalism and were cruel with immigration... sis no... NO
*Oh Martha J - guuurrrrllll! Your husband though... WTF! Really had your half sister be your slave and then you just turn the other way.
*Oh Patsey - you think the rumours about your aunt are not true... Gurrrrrrlllllll.....
*Oh Dolly - you did the most of the most not mad at you babe... Also respect that you endorsed women and cared for children. But babe, you needed to let the slaves go.
*Oh Lizzie - Shooooo you saw both the American and French Revolution? H E C T I C.... Yeah you not a good person sis.
Great video Lindsay