Sarah " Sally " Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a woman enslaved to third President of the United States Thomas 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.

2010年1月28日 · Sally Hemings (1773‑1835) was an enslaved woman owned by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (1743‑1826). Hemings and Jefferson had a longstanding romantic relationship, and had at least one and...

An in-depth look at the life story of Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and bore several of his children.

Sally Hemings became Thomas Jefferson's property as part of his inheritance from the Wayles estate in 1774 and came with her mother to Monticello by 1776. Explore the Life and Legacy of Sally Hemings As a child, she was probably a nursemaid to Jefferson's daughter Maria (enslaved girls from the age of six or eight were childminders and ...

2025年1月1日 · Sally Hemings (born 1773, Charles City county, Virginia [U.S.]—died 1835, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.) was an American slave who was owned by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson and is widely believed to have had a relationship with …

2024年8月26日 · Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children. Born in 1773 at a Virginia plantation of John Wayles, Hemings became the property of Jefferson, whose wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, was likely Hemings’s half-sister.

2018年6月6日 · Today TJF and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.

When Martha died in 1782, Sally and her enslaved family became the property of Thomas Jefferson. Like most enslaved people, Sally started working when she was very young. She took care of Thomas and Martha’s daughter Maria.

Sally Hemings attracted the singular attention of Thomas Jefferson in 1787, when she accompanied Jefferson's nine-year-old daughter Maria Jefferson (Eppes) to Paris as Maria's personal servant. From 1784 to 1789, Jefferson was the American minister to France, and Maria's older sister Martha Jefferson (Randolph) was already abroad with him.

2018年6月18日 · A new exhibit at the Monticello estate recognizing Sally Hemings is a major step in transforming public history by ending the myth that her relationship with Thomas Jefferson was a love affair,...