Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. President Thomas Jefferson...
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Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of Sally Hemings’ four children...
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United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of an enslaved...
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Wayles-Hemings-Jefferson families and the region, often with multiple generations repeating the pattern. The large Hemings family, with Betty Hemings as matriarch...
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Hemings for some time, and then Harriet stopped writing. In 1773, Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson had inherited Sally Hemings,...
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parodied the relationship of Hemings and Jefferson titled Thomas Jefferson Meets Sally Hemings in Season 28, Episode 8. Hemings was portrayed by comedian...
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Jefferson, though, was found by The Monticello Jefferson-Hemings Report (2000) to be the likely father of Sally Hemings' children. Other scholars contend otherwise...
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Cottman, Michael (July 3, 2017). "Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello"...
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and Hemings lines for the descendants of Eston Hemings. The test results showed a match between the Jefferson male line and the descendant of Hemings, but...
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Hemings Madison Hemings - 2x great-grandson Frederick Madison Roberts, first African-American state politician in California; Eston Hemings Jefferson...
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John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
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the Jefferson-Hemings controversy.) In his 1873 memoir, Jefferson corroborated Hemings' statement of being the "natural son" of Thomas Jefferson: I know...
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. Mademoiselle Contat James Earl Jones ..... Madison Hemings Beatrice Winde ..... Mary Hemings Tim Choate .... Reporter The film was shot on location...
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Peter Carr (Virginia politician) (category Jefferson family)
He is primarily known for the Jefferson–Hemings controversy, as he was rumored to have fathered children by Sally Hemings. Carr was born in Goochland County...
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relationship with his slave (and sister-in-law) Sally Hemings. His other two children with Hemings were allowed to escape without pursuit. After his death...
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100 slaves were Betty Hemings, of mixed-race ancestry, and her 10 mixed-race children. The youngest, an infant, was Sally Hemings. The six youngest were...
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French Revolution. The film focuses largely on Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings. Thomas Jefferson (1997 film). This 1997 two-part American documentary...
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the Wayback Machine, The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Digital Library, Lehigh University "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account" Archived...
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John Wayles (category Hemings family)
to adulthood. Through Betty Hemings, a woman he enslaved, Wayles fathered six additional children, including Sally Hemings, who was the mother of six children...
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Samuel Carr (politician) (category Jefferson family)
player in the Jefferson-Hemings controversy as he, alongside his brother Peter, was at one time rumored to have fathered children by Sally Hemings. Carr was...
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October 13, 1784 and Jefferson arranged for Polly to leave the Eppes household and join him in France. In the care of Sally Hemings, at age nine Polly sailed...
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Mary Hemings Bell (c. 1753 – after 1834) was born into slavery, most likely in Charles City County, Virginia, as the oldest child of Elizabeth Hemings, a...
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Monticello Association (category Jefferson family)
be difficult for the Hemings descendants to gather, but thought other evidence was inconclusive. In July 2003 more than 100 Hemings descendants and 12 Association...
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings is a 2016 historical fiction novel by American writer Stephen O'Connor. The novel depicts the relationship between...
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had fathered multiple children with Sally Hemings. Noting the huge output of scholarly books on Jefferson in recent years, historian Gordon S. Wood summarizes...
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Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father...
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John Hemmings (also spelled Hemings) (1776 – 1833) was an American woodworker. Born into slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as a member of the large...
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sexual liaison between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings was a reality. The letter revealed the names of all of Hemings’ three children, who were alive...
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medieval Europe. Jefferson–Hemings controversy regarding the sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, resulting in six...
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then published existing rumors claiming President Jefferson had children with slave Sally Hemings. Self-educated, Callender worked as a recorder of deeds...
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