"That graveyard is for Jefferson descendants and they're Jefferson ... this country would not exist without slaves and Sally Hemings was one of the founding mothers of this country.

It was only in recent history, and in large part because of DNA testing, that descendants of Jefferson and Hemings were formally and officially recognized. An exhibit about Sally Hemings opened at ...

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 ...

In providing Sally Hemings with her rightful place in history, we give her and her descendants back their sense of humanity. Ultimately, however, the Monticello exhibit is a reminder of both the ...

The Sally Hemings room opened to the public Saturday, alongside a room dedicated to the oral histories of the descendants of slaves at Monticello, and the earliest kitchen at the house ...

Shannon LaNier, a sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, co-authored "Jefferson's Children: The story of one American family" with Jane Feldman, an author and ...

Her next book will follow the descendants through the 19th century. One of Sally's grandsons, John Wayles Hemings, was a lieutenant colonel in the Union army during the Civil War, she said.

For three years, the descendants of slave Sally Hemings have attended family reunions at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation, touring the historic grounds outside Charlottesville alongside ...

Thomas Jefferson's biography got significantly more complicated when DNA evidence linked him to the descendants of Sally Hemings, a slave on his... 'Monticello' Tells Untold Story Of Sally Hemings ...