And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s paternity of the children of Sally Hemings, his slave.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will ...

Descendants of family of Sally Hemings, slave who gave birth to at least one child fathered by Thomas Jefferson, gather for their first reunion at Monticello, Jefferson's hilltop plantation in ...

There were 5000 acres at Monticello, and over the course of his lifetime Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves; only 11 were freed or allowed to go free, and 4 were the grown children of Sally Hemings.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - 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.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A commission of scholars Thursday disputed claims that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, and said the evidence points instead to Jefferson s ...

Four of Hemings’ children lived to adulthood, and documentary evidence, along with genetic links found in DNA tests of Hemings and Jefferson descendants in 1998, led most historians to believe ...

But this was, very likely, the room inhabited by Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore six of Jefferson's children, a woman about whom little is known, who lived her life as Jefferson's ...

Monticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children Our founding father, my 6th great-grandfather, had 6 children with his slave Sally Hemings ...

In 2022, Annette Gordon-Reed posed outside the Conroe ISD school named in her honor. Gordon-Reed, a Conroe High grad, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her work on Jefferson and the Hemings family.

The affair was denied, and Jefferson’s family later spread the story that any physical resemblance between the president and Sally Hemings's children could more probably be laid at the door of ...