Lincoln Blades, writing for Teen Vogue on Why You Can’t Ever Call an Enslaved Woman a “Mistress”: Jefferson owned many slaves at Monticello, but Hemings has received the most attention […]
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News Clip: For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.
Krissah Thompson, writing for The Washington Post on “For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.” The floor tiles and bathroom stalls […]
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White Hemings Descendants embrace “one drop”
A Family Get-Together of Historic Proportions The New York Times July 14, 2003 By JAMES DAO Madison Hemings and his siblings were so light-skinned that they were able to blend […]
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Is Paulie Abeles the next Mary Rosh?
Chris Kahn of the Associated Press on Web Spying Puts Twist on Jefferson Saga: The wife of a Thomas Jefferson family association official said Friday that she masqueraded as a […]
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A Valentine for Tom and Sally
A Valentine for Tom and Sallyby Jay Bryant (The Optimate)http://www.theoptimate.com/2041/wrapper.jsp?PID=2041-15&CID=2041-021403A (February 14, 2003)
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Monticello’s Theories of Relativity
Monticello’s Theories of Relativity: Jefferson Family Report Urges Against Taking Hemings Descendants Into Groupby Leef Smith (The Washington Post)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29905-2002May3.html (May 4, 2002)
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West Ford Was in the House
West Ford Was in the House – Making the Case for the African American Descendants of George Washingtonby Wendy Robinson (The Multiracial Activist)https://www.multiracial.com/readers/robinson.html (August/September 2001)
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Book Excerpt: I Cannot Tell a Lie: The True Story of George Washington’s African American Descendant
Book Excerpt: I Cannot Tell a Lie: The True Story of George Washington’s African American Descendantsby Linda Allen Bryant (The Multiracial Activist)https://www.multiracial.com/store/bryant.html (August/September 2001)
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Author details claim of tie to Washington
Author details claim of tie to Washingtonby Bob Jackson (Rocky Mountain News)http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/community_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_260_741964,00.html (July 5, 2001)
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Jefferson Group Bars Kin Of Slave: Hemings Family Remains Unshaken
Jefferson Group Bars Kin Of Slave: Hemings Family Remains Unshakenby Leef Smith (The Washington Post)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37241-2002May5.html (May 6, 2002)
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