A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the details of the story. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA ...

He left nearly all members of the Hemings family to his daughter Martha Jefferson. Several sources assert that Sally Hemings was a half-sister to Martha, both fathered by John Wayles, which is ...

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children ... Father and his female possession because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses ...