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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. 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, alleged mother to his shadow family Children 6 ...
Jefferson proposed that African-American children born in America be bought by the federal government for $12.50 and that these slaves be sent to Santo Domingo. [99] Jefferson admitted that his plan would be liberal and may even be unconstitutional, but he suggested a constitutional amendment to allow congress to buy slaves.
Caricature of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, ca.1804, attributed to James Akin (American Antiquarian Society). In 1802, the journalist James T. Callender, after being refused an appointment to a postmaster position by Jefferson and issuing veiled threats of "consequences," reported that Jefferson had fathered several children with a slave concubine named Sally.
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 ...
Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman, Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2000 (with photos of Jefferson descendants on both sides) Stanton, Lucia. Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello, Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000.
Many of Thomas Jefferson's letters and other writings survive, so historians know more about the Hemingses who lived on Monticello than about many other slave families. Six of Elizabeth Hemings' children were Martha Jefferson's half-brothers and half-sisters because they had the same father: John Wayles.
Jefferson–Hemings controversy regarding the sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, resulting in six children. Julia Chinn, an enslaved octoroon who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson. Enslaved women's resistance in the United States and Caribbean
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.