DOROTHY WESTERINEN, Hemings DESCENDANT: They don't want the Hemings in their graveyard, so that -- you know, and the Hemings are black. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2000] Reference
LAMB: So Sally Hemings went to Paris for what reason?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
LAMB: Do they know where any of the Hemings are buried?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
LAMB: In 1802, how many children had Sally Hemings had?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
Thomas Jefferson fathered any children by Sally Hemings. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Ellis] Reference
Sally Hemings before then, but it was really after reading Fawn. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
LAMB: And who would have been Sally Hemings 'mother and father?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
Hemings, one of Sally's children, that his mother told him that. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism] Reference
Prof. GORDON-REED: The first time I heard of Sally Hemings was when. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
Hemings, and her father was John Wayles, who was also the father of. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
Hemings was born in 1735 to an African mother and an English father. From Wordnik.com. [Matriarch of Mulberry Row] Reference
Prof. GORDON-REED: Sally Hemings 'mother was a woman named Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
Excavation closer to Hemings 'house revealed a small artifact midden. From Wordnik.com. [Matriarch of Mulberry Row] Reference
Jefferson insists that Hemings must wait long enough to train another. From Wordnik.com. [Hercules and Hemings: Presidents' Slave Chefs] Reference
Consider how Sally Hemings came to be at Monticello in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Concubine] Reference
So except for people named Hemings, largely, his slaves went to the winds. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism] Reference
I don't think Hemings actually has the claim that people -- they think she does. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2002] Reference
You could write every known fact about Sally Hemings on the back of an envelope. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Other Clan] Reference
The only Hemings descendent that had a DNA match and applied to the group was WHITE. From Wordnik.com. [High-Level McCain Volunteer Worked To Keep Blacks Out Of Jefferson Group] Reference
The wife of the President of the Hemings family group posed as a young white reporter. From Wordnik.com. [High-Level McCain Volunteer Worked To Keep Blacks Out Of Jefferson Group] Reference
The report established only that some Jefferson male had fathered a child with Hemings. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Ellis] Reference
Washington Post's description of Hemings as 'Jefferson's wife's illegitimate half-sister'. From Wordnik.com. [Editorial] Reference
Ms. HARRIS: Hemings returns to Monticello with Jefferson, and he petitions for his freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Hercules and Hemings: Presidents' Slave Chefs] Reference
LAMB: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, from your information, had how many children together?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy] Reference
The relationship he had with Sally Hemings was not, as might be imagined, a common-law marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Concubine] Reference
When Jefferson died in 1826, five of Hemings 'descendants were freed in accordance with his will. From Wordnik.com. [Matriarch of Mulberry Row] Reference
But there was little 'in-law' that recognized Hemings humanity - to say nothing of a sisterly bond. From Wordnik.com. [Background Documents] Reference
Byron Woodson Sr. is a descendent of Sally Hemings and he has researched his family history in depth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2001] Reference
Gossip about the two circulated in Washington in the early 19th century, and Hemings bore the brunt of the outrage. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Other Clan] Reference
We came together and reconnected and then we've reconnected with the descendants of Esten (ph) Hemings and Madison Hemings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2001] Reference
If the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson endured for almost 40 years until his death, might it fairly be called love?. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Other Clan] Reference
Furthermore, records show that Jefferson was in the same location as Hemings nine months before each of her children's births. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Other Clan] Reference
Does the President believe Callender's Sally Hemings 'slanderous myth, which is now being used to promote a CBS special, or not?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
FROM "" SLAVE SHACKLE '' JEWelry (above) to Sally Hemings, slavery was a hot topic last year, and it shows no signs of cooling down. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery Chic] Reference
The Jefferson-Hemings controversy began in 1802, when an unscrupulous newspaper editor named James Thomas Callender made the charge. From Wordnik.com. [A Declaration of Inconclusiveness] Reference
For Jefferson to have had children with Hemings was a "moral impossibility" -- the Jefferson they knew was incapable of such perfidy. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson's Other Clan] Reference
"We know from documents that Hemings sold cabbages, strawberries, and chickens to Jefferson while she lived at this site," says Neiman. From Wordnik.com. [Matriarch of Mulberry Row] Reference
Just take a look at the laws in the slaves states and ponder the situation of Sally Hemings and her children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. From Wordnik.com. [New Obama Ad Sketches His American Story] Reference
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