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.

Thus, two Virginia families were intertwined. There was the Wayles-Jefferson family, and there was the Hemings family. When John Wayles died, Thomas Jefferson inherited Wayle’s slaves ...

All of these approaches misrepresent the liaison between the Founding Father and his female possession because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family ...

She was a baby when Jefferson inherited the Hemings family from his father-in-law, a major slaveholder. In 1787, when she was 14, Jefferson had Hemings accompany his young daughter Maria to Paris ...

was the daughter of the English captain Hemings and an enslaved African woman. Along with other members of her family, she was owned by Jefferson's father-in-law, John Wayles, who died in 1773.

The sexual exploitation of enslaved women was, unfortunately, a common practice during this period and was one that plagued Hemings’ family from generation to generation. She was the daughter of ...

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 ...

Emma Heming and Bruce Willis' daughters are growing up so fast amid their father's battle with frontotemporal dementia, ...

In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. Jefferson and Hemings, who was 30 years his junior ...

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 ...

A&E The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image ...