• father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings's mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of a female slave and an English captain, John Hemings. Sally's father, the owner of...
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  • With her owner, planter John Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings. These children were three-quarters white, and, following the condition...
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  • Eston Hemings Jefferson (May 21, 1808 – January 3, 1856) was born into slavery at Monticello, the youngest son of Sally Hemings, a mixed-race enslaved...
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  • by Hemings. Four of Hemings' children survived to adulthood. In the antebellum period, hers would have been called a shadow family. Sally Hemings was...
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    Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings' children is the subject of the Jefferson–Hemings controversy. At the age of 68, Hemings claimed the connection in...
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  • believed to be the daughter of Sally Hemings and the widower Thomas Jefferson. It is widely believed that Jefferson and Hemings had a 38-year secret relationship...
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  • Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings and was a bestseller. Together with articles about the issue and Jefferson-Hemings descendants in American Heritage...
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    accompanied by a young slave from Monticello, Sally Hemings. Jefferson had taken her older brother, James Hemings, to Paris as part of his domestic staff and...
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  • Madison Hemings, his uncle James and (future) mother Sally actively considered staying in France for freedom while they were in Paris. (Sally Hemings had...
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  • Hemings children's paternity. Thomas Jefferson, though, was found by The Monticello Jefferson-Hemings Report (2000) to be the likely father of Sally Hemings'...
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    Jefferson to seriously examine the evidence related to Sally Hemings; she thought the Hemings-Jefferson liaison was likely. Gordon-Reed analyzed the historiography...
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    grandmother is Sarah (Sally) Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his wife. John's father, Eston Hemings, was born a slave at...
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  • novel Sally Hemings (1979). It earned the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction, and became an international success. Chase-Riboud's novel about Sally Hemings...
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    was the father of Sally Hemings' children (rather than his blood relatives, as was later found true). Randolph admitted some of Hemings' children strongly...
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  • John Wayles (category Hemings family)
    adulthood. Through his female slave Betty Hemings, Wayles fathered six additional children, including Sally Hemings, who was the mother of six children by...
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  • The Hemings family lived in Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s. The family consisted of Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and her children and other descendants....
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    longstanding sexual relationship with Sally Hemings. Even though the match is only with one of the Hemings' descendants, Eston Hemings, it's inconceivable that Jefferson...
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  • Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings is a 2016 historical fiction novel by American writer Stephen O'Connor. The novel depicts the relationship between...
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    primarily known for the Jefferson–Hemings controversy, as he was rumored to have fathered children by Sally Hemings. Carr was born in Goochland County...
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  • Jefferson in Paris (category Sally Hemings)
    Polly Jefferson Thandiwe Newton ..... Sally Hemings (credited as Thandie Newton) Seth Gilliam ..... James Hemings Todd Boyce .... William Short Nigel Whitmey...
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  • long-standing relationship and children with Martha's half-sister, Sally Hemings, a favored enslaved woman who was three-quarters white. Martha Wayles...
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  • Mary Hemings Bell (1753 – after 1834) was born into slavery, most likely in Charles City County, Virginia, as the oldest child of Elizabeth Hemings, a mixed-race...
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    a wedding gift, including Molly Hemings, the eldest daughter of Mary Hemings. Critta Hemings, sister of Sally Hemings, helped Randolph care for the children...
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  • book Sally Hemings: An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial Truth (2001). It recounts her work over 16 years to bring Hemings' story...
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    slave Sally Hemings, beginning years after his wife died, and six children with her. In 1998 a Y-DNA study showed that a descendant of Eston Hemings Jefferson...
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    of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston Hemings. Helen F.M. Leary (September 2001). "Sally Hemings's...
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  • Thomas Jefferson and slavery (category Sally Hemings)
    his relationship with his slave (and sister-in-law) Sally Hemings. His other two children with Hemings were allowed to escape without pursuit. After his...
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    Life" by Everclear. In 2000 Heinle played the part of Harriet Hemings in Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a short two part made for television film...
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    attached to the corner of a nude Sally Hemings' portrait frame. The juxtaposition of the fully clothed Jefferson with Hemmings' nudity reinforces the unfair...
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  • of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston Hemings...Since then, a committee...
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