Sally Hemings

<p>A seasoned scholar examines in detail evidence that the widowed Thomas Jefferson took as his mistress Sally Hemings, the beautiful quadroon half sister of his late wife</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A STUDY IN HISTORICAL SILENCES</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Three movies newly available on video cast a cold and, occasionally, even scornful eye on their subjects.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why the possible liaison between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings matters to us.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A Jefferson descendant's thoughts on luck, ancestry, and the meaning of the DNA findings</span></p>

<p>It turns out that my great-grandfather fought to free my daughter.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A descendant of Thomas Jefferson comments on the quarrel over who can be allowed in the family graveyard, and the missing remains of Sally Hemings. The outcome of the dispute is important to every American.</span></p>

<p>To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.</p>

<p>Jefferson had children with his wife, Martha, and then with his and slave, Sally Hemings, and these children lived very different lives as a result of their race.</p>

<p>Important new information on the central figure in the early American republic has surfaced with the publication of new volumes of Jefferson's journals and correspondence.</p>