One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33.

Hemings was also Wayles's half-sister, born after Wayles's mother died and her father had an affair with his slave, Elizabeth Hemings, Sally's mother. Wayles died in 1782.

We children of the South — direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman, and Martha Wayles Jefferson, his wife — hold hands at last as brothers and sisters at ...

In the last half of his life, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by two women: Martha Jefferson Randolph and Sally Hemings. Randolph was Jefferson’s eldest daughter and his eventual caretaker ...

John Wayles, the father of Martha Jefferson, also had the proclivity of having sexual relations with his slaves and Sally Hemings was his issue. Thus, Sally Hemings was the enslaved half-sister of ...

One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33.

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, yet one that forces many to confront our nation’s difficult past. ... Martha Jefferson, who passed away in 1782. Recommended Videos.

Hemings arrived at Monticello as a toddler, one of more than 100 enslaved people inherited by Martha and Jefferson following Wayles’ death in 1773. Martha died in 1782, leaving Jefferson a widower.

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