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Gayle Jessup White, Monticello's Community Engagement Officer, is a descendant of the Hemings and Jefferson families and an integral part of Monticello's African American legacy: Sally Hemmings ...
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed.It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master and the father of Sally Hemings' children.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835) Sally Hemings Born Sarah Hemings c. 1773 Charles City County, Virginia, British America Died 1835 (aged 61–62) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Known for Slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, mother to his shadow family Children 6, including Beverly ...
In 1873 Betty's grandson Madison Hemings and Israel Jefferson, both former enslaved workers at Monticello, published newspaper interviews which said Wayles was the father of Sally Hemings and several other of Betty's children.
Big changes are underway at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello -- among them is the reconstruction of the room that likely belonged to slave Sally Hemings.
Monticello (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l oʊ / MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at the age of 14.
Jefferson had no such policy and freed few slaves. There were many mixed-race slaves at Monticello, both in the larger Hemings family and other slave families. Coolidge appeared to be trying to cover up his freeing the children of Sally Hemings. [4] Edmund Bacon, chief overseer at Monticello for about twenty years, described Harriet's gaining ...
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed said that there were many girls named "Thenia" in the Hemings family, and they might have been named after Parthenia, also spelled Parthena. But she also says that "Sally" is a nickname for "Sarah," and there were many girls named "Sarah" and "Sally" in the Hemings family too. [2]