Search results
An in-depth look at Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and bore several of his children, using research, videos, and oral histories, and the recollections of her son Madison Hemings to tell what is known -- and unknown -- about her life and story.
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.
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...
26 sie 2024 · Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children. Born in 1773 at a Virginia plantation of John Wayles, Hemings became the property of Jefferson, whose wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, was likely Hemings’s half-sister.
There are no known portraits of her. Sally Hemings became Thomas Jefferson's property as part of his inheritance from the Wayles estate in 1774 and came with her mother to Monticello by 1776. Explore the Life and Legacy of Sally Hemings.
16 cze 2018 · A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in her living quarters. Jefferson fathered six of her children.
3 kwi 2014 · Sally Hemings was an enslaved African American woman who’s believed to have had several children with one-time U.S. president Thomas Jefferson.
