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CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will ...
Monticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children Our founding father, my 6th great-grandfather, had 6 children with his slave Sally Hemings ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a ...
Matt Deegan / Charlottesville Daily Progress Jul 15, 2007 Updated Jan 24, 2013 0 ...
Monticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children Our founding father, my 6th great-grandfather, had 6 children with his slave Sally Hemings ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a ...
So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children ...
Object Details Author Lewis, Jan 1949- Onuf, Peter S Subject Hemings, Sally Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Relations with women Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Relations with slaves Notes Papers originally ...