“Her name is SALLY ... Hemings, like Numa and Egeria, had to all intents and purposes been married for four decades. Not long afterward, his daughter Martha freed Hemings from slavery, as her ...

Jefferson, who traveled extensively for long periods, always happened to be in residence nine months before the birth of each of Sally Hemings's seven children. Some of Hemings's children were ...

Jefferson allowed these children to live free, and his family granted Sally Hemings an unofficial freedom ... s enslaved people and collecting images of those ancestors. “Once you start to ...

Onuf), both of them assuming that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his wife, Martha, and a slave on his estate. Reviews and blurbs of the two new books ...

Shannon LaNier, a TV news anchor, has complex feelings about being descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings ... exception—she had seven children and still managed to lead the ...