James Hemings
James Hemings came back to America with Jefferson.  Soon, Jefferson was made Secretary of State.  Again, he needed to have important people over for dinner.  James Hemings was his chef.  Jefferson paid Hemings the same wage as the free people who worked for him: seven dollars a month.  The capital of the United States changed from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1790.  The law of Pennsylvania said that if slave owners brought slaves to Pennsylvania, then those slaves were free after six months. (Enslaved people who ran away to Pennsylvania were not free, even after six months.)  James Hemings was in Philidelphia for more than six months.  Again, he could have gone to court and asked the judge to say he was a free man if he had wanted to.  We do not know why he did not.