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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 ...
Monticello from the book The Bloom of Monticello, 1826, the year of Thomas Jefferson's death and the year before Hemings was freed. Hemings was named for Jefferson's close friend, James Madison. [11] According to Hemings, Dolley Madison requested the honor of his being named after her husband, who was afterwards President of the United States. [20]
When Martha Wayles, at the time called Martha Skelton, married Thomas Jefferson, Hemings and many people in her family went with her to Jefferson's house at Monticello. Historians think Elizabeth Hemings took care of Martha Jefferson when she became sick and that she was present at her death. [2] [5]
Lost in time, archeologists excavated a special space at Jefferson's Monticello mansion that astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of Sally Hemings, the ...
What is known of Eston's life is derived from his brother Madison's 1873 memoir, a few entries in Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, a handful of contemporary newspaper accounts, various census and land/tax records, and the family history of his descendants. [9] Eston was born into slavery as the youngest son of the enslaved Sally Hemings.
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.
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Other members of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello family have (as of 2018) [19] accepted the fact that Thomas Jefferson is the father of Sally Hemings' six children. Eston Hemmings changed his name to Jefferson in his lifetime.