Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is Old News, Fourth of July edition.

A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the ...

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 ...

Jefferson in his mid-40s began a physical relationship with Sally, his slave, sometime between 1787 and 1789, when she was 14 to 16 years old. Rumors that Jefferson fathered at least one child ...

During his first term as president, Jefferson was accused of fathering children with Sally Hemings, a slave at Monticello. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation conducted a report on the affair and ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

During his first term as president, Jefferson was accused of fathering children with Sally Hemings, a slave at Monticello. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation conducted a report on the affair and ...

Eugene Abram Foster, 81, who conducted a prominent DNA study that linked descendants of Thomas Jefferson to his Monticello slave Sally Hemings, died of complications of renal failure and pneumonia ...

The Monticello Association, which has about 1,000 members, has adamantly denied membership to descendants of Jefferson's black slave, Sally Hemings, citing lack of evidence that Thomas Jefferson ...

Hemings Saga Wins National Book Prize. Matthiessen Trilogy ... Gordon-Reed spoke of "the journey that black people in this country have been on" since the Hemingses were owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Abby, Abram, Aggy and Amy. Susan, Tucker and William. These are just seven of the names of the 607 enslaved people that Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, owned ...