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Sally Hemings
Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835)
Sally Hemings | |
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| 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, Harriet, Madison, and Eston |
| Parent(s) | Betty Hemings John Wayles |
| Relatives | Hemings family |
Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a woman enslaved to third President of the United StatesThomas Jefferson, inherited among many others from his father-in-law, John Wayles.
Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings,[1] the daughter of an enslaved woman and an English captain, John Hemings. Sally's father, the owner of Betty, John Wayles, was also the father of Jefferson's wife, Martha. Therefore, Sally was half-sister to Jefferson's wife and was of (at least) three quarters English descent, making her a quadroon according to then-contemporary racial classification. Martha died during her marriage in 1782. In 1787, when she
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The DNA testing found no genetic link between the Hemings and Carr descendants, refuting Jefferson’s grandchildren’s assertion that his Carr nephews fathered Sally Hemings’s children.
Additionally, the DNA study found no link between the descendants of Field Jefferson and Thomas Woodson (1790-1879), whose family members have long held that he was the first son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Madison Hemings, Hemings's second-youngest son, said in 1873 that his mother had been pregnant with Jefferson's child (who, he said, lived "but a short time") when she returned from France in 1789. There is no indication in Jefferson's records of a child born to Hemings before 1795, and there are no known documents to support that Thomas Woodson was Hemings's first child.
Shortly after the DNA test results were released in November 1998, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation formed a research committee consisting of nine members of the foundation staff, including four with Ph.D.s. In January 2000, the committee reported that the weight of all known evidence—from the DNA study, original docu
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Sally Hemings
Exploring extraordinary Black lives of the Founding Era, such as that of Sally Hemings, can transform our understanding of American history. Born in Virginia in 1773, Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman in the household of Thomas Jefferson. In 1787, at the age of 14, she accompanied Jefferson’s daughter Polly to London and then to Paris, where Jefferson was serving as the US Minister to France.
Since Hemings was considered free under French law, she initially refused to return to Jefferson’s estate of Monticello in Virginia, and only did so upon securing a promise of freedom for herself and her unborn children. In 1802, allegations of Jefferson’s sexual relationship with Hemings surfaced, resulting in an explosion of political satire in the press. Genetic analysis has determined that Hemings’s six children likely were fathered by Jefferson. Her four surviving children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings—were freed in the 1820s.
Upon Jefferson’s death, Hemings lived the last nine years of her life as a free woman. She died in Charlottesville in 1835. W
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