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 ...
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 ...
FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who co ...
Her father was an English sea captain named Hemings, and her mother was an African woman. By John Wayles, Betty produced six children: Robert, James, Peter, Critta, Sally, and Thenia, each born ...
Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...
Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...
The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children, has gone from scandal to romance to the subject of historical and scientific investigation. All of ...
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The Start of Thomas Jefferson's Sexual Relationship with Enslaved, 14-Year-Old Sally Hemings Examined in New DocIn 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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