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 Sally Hemings (Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835) was a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson. She is said to have been, by blood, the half-sister of Jefferson's deceased wife Martha Wayles Skelton... 
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 The Washington Post Jefferson and Sally Hemings
11/04/1998: 357 words, approx. 1 pages NEWS OF the DNA study linking America's third president and revered Founding Father to the son of one of his slaves comes as a jolt to some historians. Genetic testing of blood samples collected from known descendants of Thomas Jefferson and descendants of his... summary from source:
Ebony Who Was Sally Hemings?(slave woman)
06/01/1999: 2,344 words, approx. 8 pages HER name evokes hundreds of years of mystery, hundreds of years of curiosity, hundreds of years of secrecy surrounding a story--now part of history--that wouldn't die. For nearly two centuries, while historians dissected every piece, every part, every peculiarity of Thomas Jefferson's life, almost... summary from source:
 AP News Montpelier slave descendants to reunite
6/7/2007: 435 words, approx. 2 pagesEvery time Bettye Kearse steps foot on former President James Madison's plantation, she feels like she's coming home.She has spent much of her adult life wondering about her family's saying, one passed down for generations: "Remember your name is Madison."Kearse, a pediatrician, plans to join... summary from source:
The New York Observer At Thomas Jefferson\'d5s Seder
4/1/2007: 689 words, approx. 2 pagesA new genetic study raises the tantalizing possibility that Thomas Jefferson may have had Jewish ancestry. —Newsweek (3/12/07) The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family, one being an occasion that...
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