(Thomas Jefferson's only legitimate son by his wife Martha died in infancy.) The story the DNA told was that the descendant of Eston Hemings, Sally's youngest son, had the same genetic signature ...

the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33. Hemings gave birth to six of Jefferson's ...

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed ... enslaved people that he owned to be freed after the passing of his wife Martha. Around 120 slaves out of 317 at his Mount Vernon estate were ...

When we think of Thomas Jefferson ... while keeping hundreds of slaves on his plantation and having many children with his late wife’s Martha’s enslaved half-sister Sally Hemings.

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...