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Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a female slave with one-quarter African ancestry owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings's mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of a female slave and an English captain, John Hemings.
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.
Jan 28, 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...
May 8, 2024 · Sally Hemings was an American slave who was owned by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson and is widely believed to have had a relationship with him that resulted in several children. (Read Joseph Ellis’s Britannica essay on the Sally Heming’s affair.)
Apr 3, 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.
Thomas Jefferson did not free Sally Hemings. She was permitted to leave Monticello by his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph not long after Jefferson's death in 1826, and went to live with her sons Madison and Eston in Charlottesville.
Feb 8, 2023 · 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.
Sally Hemings (1773-1835), whose given name was probably Sarah, was the daughter of Elizabeth Hemings. According to her son, Madison Hemings, her father was Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law, John Wayles. There are no known portraits of her.
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?
May 17, 2020 · Born in Virginia in 1773, Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman in the household of Thomas Jefferson. In 1787, at the age of 14, she accompanied Jefferson’s daughter Polly to London and then to Paris, where Jefferson was serving as the US Minister to France.
