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 ...

the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33. Hemings gave birth to six of Jefferson's children (four survived to adulthood). Thomas Jefferson's fourth episode ...

“A peculiar thing about Thomas Jefferson’s house servants was ... Joseph Fossett, then a freed man, could only watch as his wife and children were sold and taken away.