That joke was reserved for the boys. Among the African-Americans enslaved at Monticello were up to 70 members of the Hemings family over 5 generations. Library of Congress A photograph of ...

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.

None of the Hemings are buried in the Monticello cemetery. No formerly enslaved people are buried there as the family-owned Monticello Association didn’t acknowledge Thomas had any Black ...

About 15 years ago, Gardner started tracking down descendants of famous Europeans ... being descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. “He was a brilliant man who preached equality, ...

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 ...

Her case seemed to be substantiated some time later when DNA testing revealed a match between descendants of a male Jefferson relative and a male descendent of Eston Hemings, one of Sally Hemings ...