The exhibit dedicated to Sally Hemings (also spelled Hemmings) at the home of President Thomas Jefferson, in Virginia, includes genealogy documents. This African-American woman was a half sister to Jefferson's wife, sharing a father with her, and had lived in the Jefferson household as a slave since childhood.
Controversy around this story has brewed for years, but the story has now been accepted as truth. She returned from Paris with him, pregnant, and in agreement that any children she had would be freed upon adulthood.
Many have tried on this story, wondering if there was love. I tend to think so.
So see the video, the timeline, some of the documents...
Descendants of slaves of Monticello also have participated in an oral history project called Getting Word https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/people
