began a sexual relationship while in Paris that ultimately produced at least six children. The sexual relationship between ...

Did Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s French-speaking bedmate ... Not long afterward, his daughter Martha freed Hemings from slavery, as her children had been freed before her. We do not know if ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jefferson allowed these children to live free, and his family granted Sally Hemings an unofficial freedom after Jefferson’s death. Monticello historians hope the restored room will humanize the ...

A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the details of the story. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children, has gone from scandal to romance to the subject of historical and scientific investigation. All of ...