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Sally, as most now know, was Sally Hemings, a woman Jefferson owned, having inherited her, her mother and siblings when his father-in-law, John Wayles, died in 1773.
Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is Old News ...
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.
While Jefferson was in France, he sent for his 8-year-old daughter, whom he had he left behind in Virginia. Accompanying his daughter was Sally Hemings, his slave and the half-sister of his ...
As Jon Meacham writes in “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” the contradictions are easily explained: No human being has lived without them.
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