Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of ...

For these reasons and others, it’s Sally Hemings, not Martha Wayles Skelton, who should be recognized as first lady. Advertisement This may seem a complex concept to wrap one’s mind around.

Sally Hemings became Thomas Jefferson's property as part of his inheritance from the Wayles estate in 1774 and came with her mother Elizabeth Hemings in 1776. As a child, ...

Perhaps 16-year-old Sally Hemings was simply outmatched in a debate with a persuasive, powerful, 46-year-old man. Or perhaps she saw a chance to improve life for her family.

In an 1873 interview with the Pike County Republican newspaper, Madison Hemings, the second son of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, told a story. It was a story that would confirm the ...

Sally Hemings — and her relativesJefferson's concubine part of remarkable mixed-race slave family. By FRITZ LANHAM, Chronicle News Services Nov 9, 2008.

Sally Hemings’s room wasn’t in the line of sight from the stately rooms that Jefferson inhabited, and one senses that for Jefferson, the problem of slavery needed to be kept carefully out of ...