Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings, an ...

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In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. Jefferson and Hemings, who was 30 years his junior ...

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The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

while keeping hundreds of slaves on his plantation and having many children with his late wife’s Martha’s enslaved half-sister Sally Hemings. The paradoxical elements of the lifelong idealist ...

Jefferson himself fathered six children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman whom he raped. Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves.