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	Sally Hemings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While fictional portrayals of the relationship such as Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings and the Merchant-Ivory film Jefferson in Paris reached large audiences and persuaded many, most mainstream historians continued to assert that Jefferson was unlikely to have had a sexual relationship with any slave.
		Rumors that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings's children circulated before Jefferson assumed the presidency in 1801, and they were published in 1802.
		Hemings was never officially freed by Thomas Jefferson, perhaps because the laws at that time required freed slaves to leave the state within a year; Jefferson's daughter Martha Randolph probably gave Hemings "her time," a form of unofficial freedom [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sally_Hemings (2226 words)

	Sally Hemings
		Sally Hemings herself left nothing behind to enlighten us about her life or the father of her children, but the controversy has placed her life and, at the same time, the role of slavery in our nation's history, in the forefront of the American imagination.
		Sally Hemings, her mother, and her five siblings (along with about 125 other slaves and 11,000 acres of land), were inherited at that time by John Wayles's legitimate daughter, Martha.
		Sally Hemings's father, John Wayles, was white but her mother, Elizabeth Hemings, was a mulatto slave, the child of a white father (Captain Hemings) and a full-blooded African mother (a slave owned by John Wayles).
	www.edwardsly.com /hemings.htm (1783 words)

	FORMER SLAVES -SALLY HEMINGS
		Sally Hemings was born to Elizabeth Hemings in 1773 on the plantation of her father, John Wayles, a lawyer and slavetrader.
		Sally Hemings, who was approximately 14 years of age at the time, was sent with Maria.
		Sally Hemings died in 1836 and soon afterward, her sons left Virginia for Ohio.
	www.angelfire.com /oh/chillicothe/formerslaves.html (1737 words)

	Slavery in America
		The DNA tests conclusively prove that one of the male children of Sally Hemings was the child of a male Jefferson, either Thomas Jefferson, or his uncle or brother.
		The enslaved woman Sally Hemings was the half-sister of Martha Wayles, the white woman who married Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
		One of Sally's sons, Madison Hemings, had no doubts about who his father was, according to testimony given in 1873:
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /narratives/bio_sally_hemings.htm (784 words)

	shsynopsis.txt
		Sally tells him that Monticello is as much a home to the Hemings as it is to the Jeffersons.
		Sally shepherds an abused runaway slave from a nearby plantation and when she is caught by the slave's master, she must call herself Jefferson's property in order to escape from his clutches.
		Sally and Jefferson's daughter, Harriet, is born the year Jefferson becomes the third president of the U.S. Following his election, Callender runs scandalous stories about Jefferson and Sally, but Jefferson steadfastly refuses to discuss it.
	www.ibiblio.org /samneill/films/shsynopsis.txt (1889 words)

	Slavery in the Western Hemisphere - Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
		Sally Hemings was the daughter of a woman who was half white and a white man. She was a quadroon.
		Sally Hemings has become an enigma, because she has been linked to one of the most famous men in history, and very little is known about her.
		Sally Hemings was Jefferson's late wife's half sister.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /slavery/inter-racial_sexual_relations/hemings_jefferson.htm (540 words)

	Did Jefferson Sleep with Sally Hemings?
		Sally Hemings was not just an immature slave, she was the maid to both of Jefferson's beloved daughters.
		More importantly, as a slave Sally had no right (and probably no concept) of "consent." Morally speaking, for Thomas Jefferson to have become sexually involved with Sally Hemings in Paris would be akin to a teacher or minister engaging in sex with a child entrusted to his care.
		In May the descendants of Thomas Jefferson's daughters (Martha and Maria) voted by a margin of 93 percent to deny admission to the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who was alleged to have been his "concubine" in Paris and thereafter and to have given him several children.
	hnn.us /articles/825.html (3709 words)

	Matriarch of Mulberry Row
		"Hemings' house is a form that was new to Monticello at the end of the eighteenth century, signaling a shift from large buildings sheltering unrelated people to kin-based housing that afforded enslaved individuals and their families a bit more privacy and control of their domestic environments," says Neiman.
		Because Hemings was the cabin's only occupant, and she lived there for less than ten years until her death in 1807, there were few obvious clues about how much of the otherwise uninhabited mountain space she used.
		Hemings was born in 1735 to an African mother and an English father.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/monticello.html (946 words)

	CNN - Excerpt: 'Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy' -- March 3, 1999
		Sally Hemings lived in France for over two years, yet nothing impressed her, no experience expanded her outlook on life, she brought back not one word of French.
		Hemings does not stand by himself as a person whose identity has to be known and treated with any degree of care.
		Hemings" is the difference between a legitimate dispute with an individual--which is always allowable--and an expression of racial prejudice, which is never.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9903/thomas.jefferson (6419 words)

	The Looking Glass
		However, if the offspring of Sally Hemings were, also, his descendants, then this definition allowed their children, once freed, to become "white" and absolved Jefferson of any sense of guile, since he could logically and, by his interpretation, legally implement this description.
		Wayles's children Sally Hemings' mother Betty was a bright mulatto woman, and Sally mighty near white; she was the youngest child.
		Lastly the new claims that Hemings children were fathered by a male line Jefferson other than the former President, is not supported by any claims that were ever made by family living at the time of Sally's pregnancies.
	www.ohiou.edu /~glass/vol/1/11.htm (7642 words)

	frontline: jefferson's blood: chronology: the sally hemings story (1977) PBS
		But Sally Hemings was not among those manumitted: her name appeared on the slave inventory of his estate and her value was set at fifty dollars, although she might have been regarded as a collector's item by anyone who believed Callender's story.
		Even if Sally Hemings did, in fact, relate the story printed in the Pike County Republican to her son, the possibility remains that her purpose was to raise him in his own sadly battered esteem and to conceal her own dereliction in having children out of wedlock by one of the Carr brothers.
		Perhaps the most inexplicable event in the Sally Hemings story as the Callender-Brodie script unfolds is Jefferson's failure to give freedom upon his death to the woman who as a young girl, allegedly had renounced her opportunity of freedom and returned to Monticello in order to satisfy his desires.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1977wolf.html (1898 words)

	shtimeline.txt
		Sally Hemings becomes Thomas Jefferson's property and arrives at Monticello as part of his inheritance from the Wayles' estate.
		Edy Hemings, Sally's third child, is born and dies in infancy.
		Sally Hemings: An American Scandal Time Line 1743 Thomas Jefferson born (April 13) 1772 Jefferson marries Martha Wayles Skelton, daughter of John Wayles (Jan. 1).
	www.ibiblio.org /samneill/films/shtimeline.txt (895 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Sally Hemings - An American Scandal
		The main title cue, "I Was Born Sally Hemings", is a soft dramatic piece that begins with a female vocalist quietly singing, and it segues smoothly into the main theme from the film.
		For the television miniseries "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal", one would expect a score befitting the era, with plenty of sweeping moments of drama, sentimentality and, of course, romance.
		McNeely has proven his abilities in almost every film genre, and "Sally Hemings" is the first film (to the best of my recollection) that lent him the opportunity to score an early Americana period drama.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2518 (421 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Finally, all of Sally Hemings's known children seem to have been born between the death of Randolph's first wife and his remarriage at about the time Eston was born.
		The scholars commission also disclosed that a key letter from Jefferson's granddaughter, used by revisionist historians to tie Jefferson to Sally Hemings, was altered in transcription, with 13 words in a key sentence changed to reverse its clear original meaning.
		The transcription was included in the appendix of Annette Gordon-Reed's highly acclaimed book, "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings," which also suggested that the reason earlier generations of Jefferson scholars failed to give proper weight to Madison Hemings's alleged "memoirs" was because the historians were white and Madison was black.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=95000747 (1153 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Sandra Seaton
		Sally Hemings has become one of the newly rediscovered stars of American history, a slave who served as Thomas Jefferson's mistress, accompanied him on his diplomatic assignment to Paris, and (judging by DNA evidence) bore him at least one child.
		If there were evidence that Sally Hemings had been only one of Jefferson's sexual partners among many, then one would have to look at the relationships in an entirely different light.
		The Sally Hemings dramatized here is a woman who seized the opportunity to enjoy French fashion and culture, a woman whose intellect and taste were limited neither by her legal status nor racial categorization.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/seaton_sandra.html (1081 words)

	A Different Drummer Commentary: Nicholas Stix
		Descendants of Sally Hemings' son, Madison, refused to permit Madison's son, William, to be exhumed.
		Here’s what is known: Thomas Jefferson owned a slave named Sally Hemings.
		The Jefferson-Hemings Hoax claims, without any evidence, that the third president, renaissance man, and author of the Declaration of Independence fathered the children of slave Sally Hemings (1773-1835).
	www.geocities.com /nstix/jeffersonhemings.html (1974 words)

	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) (TV)
		An African-American woman wrote the screenplay, which is a good thing, given the racial and political ramifications of this fictionalized account of the relationship between America's third president, Thomas Jefferson, and the slave woman, Sally Hemings, who almost certainly bore him one, and probably several, children.
		Plot Summary: An interpretation of the historical relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings...
		Of what little we do know of the real Hemings, it seems highly probable that she was three-quarters white, and that she was in fact the half-sister of Jefferson's late beloved wife.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0206951 (592 words)

	Sally Hemings by Joel McNeely @ Cinemusic
		SALLY HEMINGS ranks with the best of the latest major television music where the level of quality is so high today, composers are forced to top eachother.
		As a whole, SALLY HEMINGS can best be described as being steeped in romanticism that at moments is less engaging than necessary.
		For the television melodrama SALLY HEMINGS AN AMERICAN SCANDAL, which tells the oft-filmed (JEFFERSON IN PARIS anyone?) story of American president Thomas Jefferson's affair with a young slave (history oddly repeats itself), McNeely has written a pleasant score - if bogged down a bit by the album's mammoth running time.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/sally_hemings.html (574 words)

	The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson
		Sally Hemings was at his bedside when he died.
		In October, 1802, while he was president, the story was published in the newspapers that Thomas Jefferson, whose wife had died in 1782, was keeping his wife's slave half-sister, Sally Hemings, as a concubine and was producing children from her.
		All five children of Sally Hemings were freed by Thomas Jefferson either before his death or in his will.
	www.ishipress.com /slaves.htm (540 words)

	WallBuilders Resources Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: The Search for Truth
		Sally Hemings was a young slave girl who served Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha, at the Jefferson home, Monticello.
		Two centuries ago, Woodson claimed (and others repeated) that Sally Hemings was his mother and Jefferson his father, and it was thus speculated that Sally had named the child "Thomas" because he had been fathered by Jefferson.
		President Jefferson was accused of having fathered a child, Tom, by Sally Hemings.
	www.wallbuilders.com /resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=15 (3203 words)

	Sally Hemings biography
		FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sally Hemings was born to slave master and sea captain, John Wayles and his slave Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings.
		ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Sally Hemings was the personal servant to Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Mary, later known as Maria.
		Woodson, Byron W. A President in the Family : Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/hemi-sal.htm (197 words)

	Salon Ivory Tower Historiographic revisionism
		In 1873, Madison Hemings, one of Sally's sons, told journalists that his mother had told him that he and three of his siblings were Jefferson's children.
		DNA evidence shows that Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, and his academic defenders are scurrying to cover their tracks.
		DNA evidence shows that Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, and his academic defenders are scurrying to cover their tracks
	archive.salon.com /it/feature/1998/11/16feature.html (712 words)

	Sally Hemings
		From The Diary Of Sally Hemings is scheduled to be performed by mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar throughout the United States during 2001 and 2002.
		A song cycle, the work recreates the thoughts and feelings of Sally Hemings throughout her long relationship with Thomas Jefferson by means of fictional diary entries.
		Florence Quivar sings From the Diary of Sally Hemings, an imaginative recreation of a complex, vital Sally Hemings who refuses to be identified merely as Thomas Jefferson's mistress.
	www.grad.cmich.edu /seaton/hemings.htm (433 words)

	The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History by David N. Mayer
		Among other families of Hemings descendants, a quite different oral tradition—attributing the paternity of Sally Hemings' children to an "uncle" of Jefferson's—appears to have been handed down from generation to generation.
		The account of former household slave Isaac Jefferson, who mentioned and described Sally Hemings in his memoir, is omitted from the Committee report, even though the fact that Isaac did not so much as hint that there was any special relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings is powerful evidence questioning the paternity thesis.
		I concur in the Scholars Commission's conclusion that the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave Sally Hemings is "by no means proven." My own view is that the allegation is not at all plausible.
	www.ashbrook.org /articles/mayer-hemings.html (8641 words)

	Thomas Jefferson - Sally Hemings DNA Study
		The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation issued a report in January 2000 concluding that there is a strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson was the father of at least one and perhaps all the children of Sally Hemings.
		"Although the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings has been for many years, and will surely continue to be, a subject of intense interest to historians and the public, the evidence is not definitive, and the complete story may never be known.
		In May 2002 the Monticello Association (descendants of Thomas Jefferson) voted to not admit descendants of Sally Hemings into their organization.
	www.angelfire.com /va/TJTruth (329 words)

	Amazon.com: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial True Story: Books: Tina Andrews,Thelma Wills Foote
		A captivating mix of history, biography, and entertainment, this is a behind-the-scenes account from the writer and producer of the acclaimed CBS miniseries about Sally Hemings, the slave mistress of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
		Sally Hemings: An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial True Story (Hardcover)
		Although I think the actress playing Sally was miscast,(I collect books on Sally Hemmings and the actress looks nothing like the description given by both whites and former slaves of Sally) and the addition of the beating scene was unnecessary I enjoyed the mini-series.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970129548?v=glance (1152 words)

	Helen Leary Discusses Sally Hemings
		Noted genealogist Helen F.M. Leary will discuss her research in a lecture titled "Sally Hemings' Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence" at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, April 16, at noon.
		Identifying the Father of Sally Hemings' Children: Helen Leary to Discuss the Genealogical Evidence on April 16
		The event, sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, will be the fourth annual Judith P. Austin Memorial Lecture.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2002/02-039.html (252 words)

	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
		The opening cue, 'I Was Born Sally Hemings', introduces the score's main theme, a longing motif for the full orchestra that rises, falls, and sweeps in magnificent arcs, bolstered by spine-tingling cymbal rings and a gorgeous brass countermelody.
		Having said that, it gives me a great deal of personal delight to report that his music for Sally Hemings: An American Scandal is quite lovely, and easily one of the most attractive and enjoyable scores of his career to date.
		Whatever the case may be, the music in Sally Hemings has that touch.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /hemingscd.htm (931 words)

	Ebony: Who Was Sally Hemings? - slave woman
		That the author of the Declaration of Independence had two families--the first by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and the second by Sally Hemings, his beautiful slave and his wife's half-sister--is something generations of Hemings' descendants have been telling the world for nearly two centuries.
		"The project of defeating the notion of a relationship between Jefferson and Hemings demanded that Hemings herself be kept invisible," New York Law School Professor Annette Gordon-Reed explains in her fascinating book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.
		But, because historians were so eager to dismiss any suggestion that Jefferson would become intimately involved with a slave, they almost unanimously denounced all accounts of his relationship with Sally Hemings as farce.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_8_54/ai_54851892 (372 words)

	The Enquirer - Judge rules owner can't name horse 'Sally Hemings'
		"Naming a thoroughbred horse 'Sally Hemings' may be offensive to persons of African descent and other ethnic groups" and may be offensive to Hemings' descendants, Ogden Mills Phipps, chairman of the Jockey Club, wrote in a ruling issued by the organization's board of stewards in June 2004.
		Redmond thinks the name "Sally Hemings" would be a natural.
		LEXINGTON - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a thoroughbred owner who sued to name one of his fillies after Sally Hemings, the slave who was reputed to be Thomas Jefferson's mistress.
	news.enquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050927/NEWS0103/509270347/1059/news01 (567 words)

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