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

'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

(Thomas Jefferson's only legitimate son by his wife Martha died in infancy.) The story the DNA told was that the descendant of Eston Hemings, Sally's youngest son, had the same genetic signature ...

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 ...

While Jefferson was in France, he sent for his 8-year-old daughter, whom he had he left behind in Virginia. Accompanying his daughter was Sally Hemings, his slave and the half-sister of his ...

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 ...

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 ...