Some of Hemings's children were said to bear a striking resemblance to Jefferson. And in an 1873 interview, Sally's fourth son Madison stated that his mother had been Jefferson's "concubine," and ...

match those sons who descended from Eston Hemings. John Wayles and Betty Hemings, as well as Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, exemplify the complexities associated with race and slavery in ...

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 ...

one of Sally Hemings’s sons. But the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society commissioned a report in 2001, which, for various reasons, was not widely published until 2010, and which concluded that ...

It was a remarkable event when the testing of his DNA concluded that John was Thomas Jefferson's third generation grandson, and Eston Hemmings, Jefferson's youngest son with his slave, Sally ...