BHM Fact #25 Sally Hemings: Mother of Thomas Jefferson's Kids
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BHM Fact #25 Sally Hemings: Mother of Thomas Jefferson's Kids
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Sally Hemings is one of the most famous—and least known—African American women in U.S. history. For more than 200 years, her name has been linked to Thomas Jefferson as his...
show moreThe historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children is the subject of the Jefferson–Hemings controversy. Following renewed historical analysis in the late 20th century, and a 1998 DNA study (completed in 1999 and published as a report in 2000) that found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Hemings' youngest son, Eston Hemings, the Monticello Foundation asserted that Jefferson fathered Eston and likely her other five children as well.
However, there are some who disagree. In 2018, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation of Monticello announced its plans to have an exhibit titled Life of Sally Hemings, and affirmed that it was treating as a settled issue that Jefferson was the father of her known children.
The exhibit opened in June 2018
SALLY HEMINGS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings
THE LIFE OF SALLY HEMINGS
https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/
Thomas Jefferson's Black and white relatives meet each other
https://youtu.be/7uCvaTV-L0U
New Monticello Exibit Has picture of whole family
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/new-monticello-exhibit-takes-closer-look-sally-hemings-slavery-healing-ncna888136
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