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  1. 1 day ago · According to Sally's son, Madison Hemings, the 16-year-old Sally and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris, where she became pregnant. The son indicated Hemings agreed to return to the United States only after Jefferson promised to free her children when they came of age.

  2. Jun 27, 2024 · Hemings gave birth to a son, Beverly, in 1798 and another daughter named Harriet, in 1801. An unnamed daughter was born in 1799 but died in infancy. Hemings later had two sons, Madison and Eston, who were born in 1805 and 1808, respectively. Some have claimed that Hemings’s first child was Thomas C. Woodson, born in 1790.

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  3. Jun 24, 2024 · APPENDIXES: A: Key to important names -- B: The Memoirs of Madison Hemings -- C: The Memoirs of Israel Jefferson -- D: Henry S. Randall to James Parton, June 1, 1868 -- E: Ellen Randolph Coolidge to Joseph Coolidge, October 24, 1858.

  4. 6 days ago · Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, who also drafted the Declaration of Independence and served as the first secretary of state. As president, he was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. He was also the founder and architect of the University of Virginia.

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  5. Jun 25, 2024 · A new book raises serious doubts about the allegation that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings that produced one or more children.

  6. 6 days ago · Jefferson’s admirers preferred to consider it a love affair and to see Jefferson and Hemings as Americas preeminent biracial couple. His critics, on the other hand, considered Jefferson a sexual predator whose eloquent statements about human freedom and equality were hypocritical.

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  8. Jun 17, 2024 · Elizabeth Hemings: Matriarch of the Hemings Family. Though most people are probably more likely to recognize the name of her daughter, Sally Hemings, Elizabeth Hemings was a powerful leader of an extensive family that was ingrained in all parts of life at Thomas Jefferson's plantation home.