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Roberts was born on September 14, 1879, in Chillicothe, Ohio, the son of Andrew Jackson Roberts (1852–1927), a graduate of Oberlin College, and Ellen Wayles Hemings (1856–1940), the daughter of Madison Hemings and Mary Hughes McCoy, a free woman of color. Ellen was 5'10" with blue eyes, and the granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas ...
Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of Sally Hemings and, most likely, Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of Sally Hemings’ four children to survive to adulthood. [1] Born into slavery, according to partus sequitur ventrem, Hemings grew up on Jefferson's Monticello plantation, where his mother was also enslaved.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Unnamed Daughter Hemings ca. December 7, 1799 – ca. 1800 no spouse: died in early childhood Harriet Hemings (II) May 22, 1801 – after 1822 unknown: unknown: James Madison Hemings: January 18, 1805 – November 26, 1877 Mary Hughes McCoy Father of 10, including: Unnamed Son Hemings (dates unknown) Sarah Hemings (1835-1884) Thomas Eston ...
Hemings did strike a deal with Jefferson to become a free man in 1796. He would return to the Monticello kitchen in 1801, when Jefferson became president, before apparently committing suicide in ...
Gayle Jessup White, Monticello's Community Engagement Officer, is a descendant of the Hemings and Jefferson families and an integral part of Monticello's African American legacy: Sally Hemmings ...
Joseph John-Michael Ellis III (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States.His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 [1] and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
Cathy Prozanski will be Roberts Elementary School's new principal starting in the 2024-25 school year. She started her career in education in 1988, and had been an elementary school principal in ...