For decades, descendents of the Wayles-Jefferson family refused to believe that Sally Hemings’s children were also Jefferson’s, but DNA testing proved it true. Markers on the Y chromosome ...

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 ...

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother ... because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family's history and across the ...