<p>Sally Hemings (1773-1835), was a slave at Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Monticello, pictured, and was the third president&#8217;s mistress, according to a DNA analysis in 1998.</p><p>Hemings was the ...

And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s paternity of the children of Sally Hemings, his slave.

Velma Williams, a descendant of Sally Hemings, a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, turned 100-years-old on July 4, 2020. She lives in Oakland, Calif.

The 1998 DNA testing published by Nature proved that Sally Hemings’s youngest son had a Jefferson father. It’s certainly possible that Thomas Jefferson was that father, but many scholars disagree.

NPR's Emily Harris reports that descendants of Thomas Jefferson are publishing a report that attempts to disprove Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. They're trying ...

Monticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children Our founding father, my 6th great-grandfather, had 6 children with his slave Sally Hemings ...

There were 5000 acres at Monticello, and over the course of his lifetime Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves; only 11 were freed or allowed to go free, and 4 were the grown children of Sally Hemings.

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 ...

Denying Sally Hemings's offspring a place in their ranks won't spare the 700 lineal descendants of Mr. Jefferson and his wife, Martha, from continued scholarly and popular talk about the ...

Velma Williams, a descendant of Sally Hemings, a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, turned 100-years-old on July 4, 2020. She lives in Oakland, Calif. OAKLAND, Calif.