Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a ...

As a teen, Hemings traveled to France with Jefferson and then as an adult won freedom for four surviving children and lived out her final years with two of her children at a house in Charlottesville.

An insatiable desire to learn her family’s story landed Gayle Jessup White at Monticello, a place she describes as “the epicenter of the American paradox.” The paradox, of course, is that ...

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, yet one that forces many to confront our nation’s difficult past. Her story is often intertwined with American Founding Father ...

One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, 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 ...

Nor did Gordon-Reed’s work end there. In 2008 she produced The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, a magisterial work that resurrected the lives of the Hemings family.

This summer, Sally Hemings of Monticello is getting her own room. Excavators are scraping away at the brick floor and fireplace of the windowless 14-2/3 x 13’ space, steps from Thomas Jefferson ...

Daniel P. Jordan, who as president of the foundation that owns Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation in Virginia, broadened its educational mission died March 21 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826). The month and day of Sally Hemings' birth are not known.

With ‘Sally & Tom,’ Suzan-Lori Parks Tackles American History, Adding Plenty of Context If you haven’t guessed yet, her new work was inspired by the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally ...

Hemings arrived at Monticello as a toddler, one of more than 100 enslaved people inherited by Martha and Jefferson following Wayles’ death in 1773. Martha died in 1782, leaving Jefferson a widower.