began a sexual relationship while in Paris that ultimately produced at least six children. The sexual relationship between ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings ... his daughter Martha freed Hemings from slavery, as her children had been freed before ...

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 ...

but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his slave mistress, Sally Hemings, that bore him children. Jefferson ...

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 ...

Foster declared, “Thomas Jefferson can neither be definitely excluded nor solely implicated in the paternity of illegitimate children with his slave Sally Hemings.” Nonetheless, he maintained ...

Separate but nowhere near equal. In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas Jefferson’s children, their descendants should be eligible to join the ...

had begun a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings, a 16-year-old enslaved woman owned by Jefferson (who was 30 years her senior), that would ultimately produce six children. "This docuseries is ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... but never acted as though they were. He fathered six children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman with whom he had a 40-year relationship and whom ...