I feel that the ancestors pulled me out of my hometown ... Her new book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, And A Descendant's Search For Her Family's Lasting Legacy," is out now.

A descendent of Jefferson and Peter Hemings (Sally’s brother), White not only gives voice to her Black ancestors but adds historical significance to a new generation of Hemingses and Jeffersons.

Sally, as most now know, was Sally Hemings, a woman Jefferson owned, having inherited her, her mother and siblings when his father-in-law, John Wayles, died in 1773. That was the year Hemings was ...

Jefferson allowed these children to live free, and his family granted Sally Hemings an unofficial freedom after Jefferson’s death. For a family whose ancestors were slaves at the Sweet Briar ...

One of Westerinen’s ancestors was Eston Hemings, the youngest of Sally Hemings’ children. Brady-Atkins, too, was related to Eston Hemings. It was about that time that the relationship between ...

A&E The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image ...

In the show, a theater troupe rehearses a play about the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, her enslaver and the father of at least six of her children. The action ...

One takes place in 1790 and centers on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson (a reedy-voiced Gabriel Ebert) and Sally Hemings (Sheria Irving), the enslaved woman who bore him at least six ...