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

One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33.

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.

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.

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.

The real, historical Thomas Jefferson never wrote anything about Sally Hemings, his slave and companion for decades. But she comes to life in a complex new novel from author Stephen O'Connor.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom ...