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Hemings died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1835 in the home of her freed sons. [5] The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children is the subject of the Jefferson–Hemings controversy.
After Jefferson’s death in 1826, Sally Hemings lived in Charlottesville with her sons Madison and Eston Hemings. She died in 1835. Hemings was born enslaved in 1773 and belonged to John Wayles, a lawyer and planter originally from England.
An in-depth look at Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and bore several of his children, using research, videos, and oral histories, and the recollections of her son Madison Hemings to tell what is known -- and unknown -- about her life and story.
Her mother was herself the child of an enslaved African woman and an English sea-captain, making Sally three-fourths white in ancestry. On Wayles’ death in 1773, the Hemings family was inherited by Martha, his eldest legitimate child, and brought to the Monticello plantation of Thomas Jefferson whom Martha had married the previous year. There ...
Sally Hemings was a woman enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, inherited through his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (October 19/30, 1748–September 6, 1782) when her father died.
Born Sally Hemings in 1773, on one of the Virginia plantations belonging to John Wayles; died in 1835 (some sources cite 1836), in Albemarle County, Virginia; daughter of John Wayles (a wealthy planter and slave trader) and his mulatto slave Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings; half-sister of Martha Jefferson; no legal marriage noted; children: Thomas ...
Sally Hemings (born 1773, Charles City county, Virginia [U.S.]—died 1835, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.) was an American slave who was owned by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson and is widely believed to have had a relationship with him that resulted in several children.
What does Sally Hemings’s story teach us about the lives of enslaved women in the Federal period? How did Sally exert agency in her life? What were the outcomes of her choices?
She died in 1835 in modest security and relative freedom— given her time, in the language of the day—comforted by the fact that all her children had escaped the hopeless bonds of enslavement for lives of promise as free Americans. Read more.
Learn about the life of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who lived and labored at Monticello, accompanied Thomas Jefferson's daughter to France, and the children fathered by her owner. Skip to Main Content