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 ...
Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family ... She is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Race on Trial ...