his second wife, in a grove that was sacred to him. I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of th ...

was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33. Hemings gave birth to six ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy continues to haunt.

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 ...

She was the daughter of the half-white slave Elizabeth Hemings and, allegedly, Jefferson’s father-in-law, John Wayles. Jefferson inherited her shortly after her birth in 1773; his personal notes ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several ... cemetery where Thomas Jefferson and the direct descendants of Thomas and his wife Martha are buried.

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas ... Jefferson is away from Monticello, Sally ...