A&E The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image ...

Hemings’ children experienced freedom decades after the negotiation: Sally was never legally emancipated and was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his passing.

Most historians now agree that Thomas then took a concubine, Sally Hemings, John Wayles’s daughter by Betty Hemings. Jefferson’s wife Martha, and Sally Hemings, were half-sisters. They shared ...

Jefferson's slave records listing the names of Sally Hemings and her sons ... just 20 miles away with Thomas Jefferson's brother Randolph and his five sons. The historical records indicate ...

A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the details of the story. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA ...

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...

Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...

In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his Virginia ...