It was largely on that basis that the Monticello Association, which represents more than 700 lineal descendants of Jefferson, voted 74 to 6 in April not to recognize the claims of the Hemings family.

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

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.

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 ...