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 ...

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

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 ...

The affair was denied, and Jefferson’s family later spread the story that any physical resemblance between the president and Sally Hemings's children could more probably be laid at the door ...

In “Sally & Tom,” Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play at the Public Theater, Sheria Irving and Gabriel Ebert play a version of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.