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Harriet Hemings was a slave and daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, who helped her escape from Monticello in 1822. She married a white man and had children, but her fate after that is unknown.
Mar 13, 2019 · Harriet Hemings (1801-unknown) 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 25, 2018 · January 25, 2018 at 6:00 a.m. EST. Many people know that Thomas Jefferson had a long-standing relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. But fewer know that they had four children, three boys...
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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...
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. Most historians believe her father was Jefferson, who is now believed to have fathered, with his slave Sally Hemings, four children who survived to adulthood.
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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.
