In fact, Martha Jefferson died in 1782, nearly 20 years before Jefferson was elected president. Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826.

Jefferson’s condemnation of slavery began thus: “He [King George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

Film & TV How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home ‘The Levys of Monticello’ focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country’s 3rd president, enslaved people ...

Our Call: STREAM IT. History’s Thomas Jefferson docuseries tries its best to make sure the Founding Father is seen in a proper light, and for the most part achieves that goal.

A Jan. 6 defendant “quoted” Thomas Jefferson to make his case. The problem: The quote, like so many that Trump and others cite, was fake.

Thomas Jefferson’s paradox: How a slaveholder wrote about liberty | John Dunphy Godfrey event explores Thomas Jefferson’s views on slavery and liberty By John Dunphy, For The Telegraph May 17 ...