But Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, judging from early reviews, is most interested in exploring potential ambiguities of their relationship. The book wonders: Did Hemings perhaps enjoy it?

The entire book revolves around the issue of ... provides a scrupulous underpinning for the world of Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings. But more importantly, he succeeds in dramatizing ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy ... In the last book of his Metamorphoses, Ovid portrays Egeria ...

A&E The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman ... he wrote about at length in his 1785 book Notes on the State of Virginia.

nearly 20 years before Jefferson was elected president. Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children ...

NEW YORK — “To cut or not to cut? That is the question,” mocks an actor in Suzan-Lori Parks’s leaden, overworked “Sally & Tom.” While rehearsing a play within the play, she concedes ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas ... was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his passing. “Though enslaved, Sally Hemings helped shape her ...

So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...