Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice ... Accompanying his daughter was Sally Hemings, his slave and the half-sister of his deceased wife. Think about that relationship. Jefferson in his mid-40s ...

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 ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas ... was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his passing. “Though enslaved, Sally Hemings helped shape her ...

was Sally Hemings, 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 ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson ... being enacted on Black people. Jefferson himself fathered six children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman whom he ...

The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks ... the three nights of this series. Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings is closely scrutinized, as is his ...

So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was ... what is stipulated in the Declaration of Independence. What of Jefferson the man? How could he square a likely liaison with a slave, Sally Hemings, in ...

By Salamishah Tillet Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, Hemings endures as a figure ...

“our evaluation of the best evidence available suggests the strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had a relationship over time that led to the birth of one and ...