This story was originally published in 2019. For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. As the second act of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” begins, Thomas Jefferson has ...

(Harriet was one of seven children Hemings had by Jefferson, although some died very young.) A highlight of Kerrison's work is that while noting the gender constraints that hemmed in white women ...

Sally Hemings was the mother of six of Thomas Jefferson's children while she was enslaved at the Monticello estate. The six children were: Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798 ...

In fact, Hemings' sisters were involved in similar unions. Yet Jefferson's exalted status ... she had a daughter named Harriet, who was born in 1795 and died in 1797. She also had a daughter ...

Harriet's parents were Madison Hemings (1805-77) and Mary Hughes McCoy. Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826).

or records of any births at times that would exclude Jefferson's paternity. Hemings’ children were light-skinned, and three of them (daughter Harriet and sons Beverly and Eston) lived as members ...

Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston Hemings." Jefferson was the original John Edwards.

Clarification: A Datebook article June 23 on Harriet Jacobs stated that Thomas Jefferson fathered a child by his slave, Sally Hemings. The matter has been controversial for 200 years. In 1998 ...

Martha Jefferson would spend just ... There – once we get more into Hemings’ life and that of her eldest daughter, Harriet – is where this book becomes totally compelling and can ...

Truscott, who is white, is a sixth-generation descendant of Jefferson and LaNier, who’s black, is a ninth-generation descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings – one of Jefferson’s slaves.