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2 days ago · According to Sally's son, Madison Hemings, the 16-year-old Sally and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris, where she became pregnant. The son indicated Hemings agreed to return to the United States only after Jefferson promised to free her children when they came of age.
4 days ago · Only four of Jefferson and Hemings’ six children survived. William Beverly Hemings, Harriet Hemings, James Madison Hemings, and Thomas Eston Hemings were born into slavery, though Jefferson...
4 days ago · The slave girl rumored to be his mistress was a young girl named Sally Hemings. Not much was known about Sally aside from the fact that she was Thomas Jefferson’s wife’s half-sister—until recently when scholars began to take a deeper look into the life of this mysterious woman.
3 days ago · No law in Texas or Tennessee or Louisiana or anywhere else can change the fact that when tourists visit Monticello today, they are taken through the room where Shannon’s 6th great grandmother lived and where she gave birth to Madison Hemings, Shannon’s 5th great grandfather, and they are told about Thomas Jefferson’s other children with ...
1 day ago · Historical records and DNA confirm Hemings had several children fathered by Jefferson. Their relationship started when she was young and he was powerful sparking much debate. Her children—Beverly Harriet Madison and Eston Hemings—were born into slavery but eventually freed fulfilling Jefferson’s alleged promise to Hemings.
4 days ago · James Earl Jones portrays Madison Hemings, the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, who later shared his family's history. #
3 days ago · Our cackling Vice President Kamala Harris even answered the door and let them in. What a country!, as the forgotten comedian Yakoff Smirnoff used to say. Where we once had John Adams, and James Madison, and George Mason, now we have the guy with the shaved head and the red dress, who steals women’s luggage from airports.
