Sally Hemings myth

Sally Hemings Myth

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When the Rumors Started

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Background Information

Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was a slave at Monticello. Monticello was the plantation that Thomas Jefferson lived at. Sally was a nursemaid-companion to Thomas Jefferson's daughter Maria (ca. 1784-1787), lady's maid to daughters Martha and Maria (1787-1797), and chambermaid and seamstress

In September 1802, by a political journalist, James T. Callender. "He wrote in a Richmond newspaper that Jefferson had for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves." "Her name is Sally," Callender continued, adding that Jefferson had "several children" by her."

(http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account)

There is a book about this myth/rumor. Its called Jefferson's Sons

by: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.

There is a movie called Sally Hemings: An American Scandal but I do not know what the rating is. Its pretty interesting that there is a movie to be honest.

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Facts

What the Myth is

Sally went to France with Thomas Jefferson and his two daughters.

Thomas Jefferson was charged by this rumor during his first term as the president. In September 1802 was what records say by a alcoholic and hypochondriac (some who thinks they are sick all the time) named James T. Caller.

The Sally Hemings Myth is that Jefferson fathered many of her children. There are six known children from Jefferson's records.

Harriet (1795-1797), (some sources say that there was a Beverly before this one but died) Beverly (1798-post 1822),Harriet (1801-post 1822), daughter (1799-1800), Madison (1805-1877), and Eston (1808-1856)