gave birth to six children fathered by Wayles, including Sally. Yes, Sally Hemings and Martha Wayles Jefferson were half-sisters. Hemings’ childhood was spent as a nursemaid to Jefferson’s ...

Hemings and her brothers James and Robert arrived at Monticello with Martha Wayles ... Elizabeth Hemings, Sally's mother. Wayles died in 1782. When Jefferson traveled to Paris two years later ...

Hemings’ children experienced freedom decades after the negotiation: Sally was never legally emancipated and was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his passing.

John Wayles, the father of Martha Jefferson, also had the proclivity of having sexual relations with his slaves and Sally Hemings was his issue. Thus, Sally Hemings was the enslaved half-sister ...

Hemings, a slave, was likely the half-sister of Randoph’s mother, Martha Wayles Skelton ... Martha and Polly, and Sally and James Hemings, around him. “In Paris, Sally and her brother James ...

We children of the South — direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman, and Martha Wayles Jefferson, his wife — hold hands at last as brothers and sisters at ...

'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman 30 years his junior Jeremy Helligar is an Executive Editor at PEOPLE ...