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Harriet Hemings (May 1801 – after 1822) was born into slavery at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, in the first year of his presidency.
Mar 13, 2019 · Harriet Hemings was the only surviving daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. She ran away from Monticello in 1822 and became a free woman in Washington, D.C., where she married a white man and passed as white.
Apr 2, 2021 · Harriet Hemings was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a slave and a white woman. She escaped from Monticello with her brother Beverley and married into white society, but her fate remains unknown.
Jan 26, 2018 · And so, to a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha (born 1772) and Maria (born 1778), she innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings (born...
Feb 3, 2018 · This is why the story of Harriet Hemings is so important. In her birth into slavery and its long history of oppression, she was black; but anyone who saw her assumed she was white.
- Catherine Kerrison
Harriet Hemings was the second of Sally Hemings's four surviving children. Sometime in 1822 she left Monticello, boarded a stagecoach bound for Philadelphia, and all but disappeared from the historical record.
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Jun 6, 2018 · Learn about Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who may have been the mother of Thomas Jefferson's children, including Harriet Hemings. Find out her biography, descriptions, residences, and Paris years.
