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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 ...
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 ...
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 ] According to Madison Hemings, Elizabeth Hemings' mother was an African woman and her father was an English sea captain named Hemings.
Big changes are underway at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello -- among them is the reconstruction of the room that likely belonged to slave Sally Hemings.
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.
"Sally & Tom" is about a theater troupe presenting a play about Sally Hemmings, one of 600 people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. Review: 'Sally & Tom,' an off-Broadway show about a former president ...
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 ...
Granger's youngest son, Isaac, using the surname Jefferson, survived into the 1840s as a free man in Petersburg, Virginia, and his recollections of life at Monticello were recorded. [19] Her granddaughter, Ursula Granger Hughes , was named after her and briefly served as an enslaved White House chef when Jefferson became president. [ 3 ]