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5 days ago · After reading about Thomas Jefferson’s death on the fourth of July, discover the story of James Callender, the 19th-century journalist who first exposed Jefferson’s relationship Sally Hemings.
5 days ago · Shannon is descended from Jefferson’s 36 year relationship—if relations between an enslaved person and a slave owner can be called that—with Sally Hemings, who is his 6th great grandmother. I am descended from Jefferson’s relationship with his wife Martha, who is my 6th great grandmother.
4 days ago · Eventually, Thomas Jefferson himself received one. Despite the bust not being a direct commission, it was very likely that Jefferson actively sought out a portrayal of Adams to add to his gallery of worthies.
5 days ago · Yes, Jefferson, a lawyer, architect, planter, slave master, father to several biracial children with his enslaved mistress Sally Hemings, and Third President of the United States, was unabashed in his feelings of white superiority—even within the text of the very document (Declaration of Independence) that will be celebrated all day today as a paragon of early American Enlightenment!
5 days ago · From Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and the writings of other contemporary observers, Monticello researchers have compiled the following primary source references to the Fourth of July.
5 days ago · (The Sally Hemings lie, for example.) But Jefferson understood that Liberty can't exists without the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment: Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and to Petition government for a redress of grievances.
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3 days ago · Toward independence. Learn how the Declaration of Independence was drafted, reviewed by Congress, and adopted. Dramatization of events surrounding the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson and approved by the Continental Congress and signed on July 4, 1776. (more) See all videos for this article.
