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 ...

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 ...

nearly 20 years before Jefferson was elected president. Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13 ... displayed the copy that is dedicated to his wife. Slavery was legal in all 13 original American ...

One takes place in 1790 and centers on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson (a reedy-voiced Gabriel Ebert) and Sally Hemings (Sheria Irving), the enslaved woman who bore him at least six ...