What is the story with Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson?
What became of the children?
Sally was a young female slave "companion " of Thomas Jefferson after his wife died. It's said to have been a long relationship. DNA testing has supported the weight of history evidence pointing to a long relationship and conclusion that Jefferson was the father to six mixed-race children. Jefferson freed all of them at age 21. The entire Hemings nucleus family left Monticello as free persons after Jefferson's death.
Can we be sure President Obama is the first black president of the United States of America?
I'm just wondering as I stand on this high elevation-breathing the rarified air
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