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A brief look at the life Beverly Hemings, the oldest surviving son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.
- Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous—and...
- Appendix H
Today TJF and most historians believe that, years after his...
- Sally Hemings
Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a female enslaved person with one-quarter African ancestry who was owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles.
Sally Hemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous—and least known—African American women in U.S. history. For more than 200 years, her name has been linked to Thomas Jefferson as his “concubine,” obscuring the facts of her life and her identity.
28 sty 2010 · Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was an enslaved woman owned by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Hemings and Jefferson had a longstanding romantic relationship, and had at least one and...
6 cze 2018 · Today TJF and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
4 lip 2018 · Madison Hemings, the third of the Jefferson-Hemings children who survived into adulthood, offered his account of second-family life at Monticello in a poignant, strikingly detailed memoir ...
What does Sally Hemings’s story teach us about the lives of enslaved women in the Federal period? How did Sally exert agency in her life? What were the outcomes of her choices?
