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Sally herself was never legally freed. The claim that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings began with James Thomson Callender, a notorious journalist and scandalmonger.

As for the white descendants of Jefferson, they were not happy with the Sally Hemings descendants crashing their reunion. They were especially unhappy with me because I invited the Hemmings.

“Twenty years ago, it was rare that you could come to Monticello and even have the name Sally Hemings mentioned,” she said. When the topic was brought up, the response was couched in denial.

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While a genetic link with Jefferson's family has been shown in only one of Sally Hemings' sons, Eston, many of the other families assert they are related, too.

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