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 ...

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally ... as father of Hemings’s children was not proved. There were other male Jefferson relatives who ...

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 ...