Members of the Hemings family, frustrated in their lengthy effort to win official recognition as relatives from the Monticello Association of Jefferson's descendants, had decided in May to hold ...

Matt Deegan / Charlottesville Daily Progress Jul 15, 2007 Updated Jan 24, 2013 0 ...

Until this year’s annual meeting of the Monticello Association in Charlottesville, Va., family harmony seemed to be only a dream. But the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave widely believed ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Archeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that has astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of Sally ...

Denying Sally Hemings's offspring a place in their ranks won't spare the 700 lineal descendants of Mr. Jefferson and his wife, Martha, from continued scholarly and popular talk about the ...

But the ground shifted last year when a DNA test found that a descendant of Eston Hemings, Sally’s youngest son, bore the same Y chromosome as the male line in the Jefferson family.

Or as “Thomas and Sally” puts it, to say that “because [Hemings and her family] were slaves, they never ever made a decision that was their own” is “simply not true.

In “Jefferson’s Blood,” an examination of what the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, means to us today, “Frontline” is at the very top of its game.The ...

In their first meeting away from Thomas Jefferson’s estate in Virginia, people who believe they are descendants of the nation’s third president and slave Sally Hemings gathered for a reunion ...