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DOROTHY WESTERINEN, HEMINGS DESCENDANT: They don't want the Hemings in their graveyard, so that -- you know, and the Hemings are black.
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All bore the surname Hemings, but their other names (what used to be called the Christian and family names) reflected their father's choices.
Jefferson's Concubine Morgan, Edmund S. 2008
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He employed four French chefs and had his slave, James Hemings, learn the art of French cooking.
Maite Gomez-Rejon: Cooking Art History: The Early American Foodie Maite Gomez-Rejon 2010
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It wasn't until the late '90s when new biographies of the founding fathers -- like American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis, which revealed that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemings that bore him six children -- suddenly brought them to life in full color, foibles and all.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: A Perfect Jackie Kennedy Calls Martin Luther King a Phony Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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He employed four French chefs and had his slave, James Hemings, learn the art of French cooking.
Maite Gomez-Rejon: Cooking Art History: The Early American Foodie Maite Gomez-Rejon 2010
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He employed four French chefs and had his slave, James Hemings, learn the art of French cooking.
Maite Gomez-Rejon: Cooking Art History: The Early American Foodie Maite Gomez-Rejon 2010
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It wasn't until the late '90s when new biographies of the founding fathers -- like American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis, which revealed that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemings that bore him six children -- suddenly brought them to life in full color, foibles and all.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: A Perfect Jackie Kennedy Calls Martin Luther King a Phony Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Opposing this was another member of Washington's cabinet, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who would face his own public sex scandal the Sally Hemings story at a later date.
Chris Weigant: America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair Chris Weigant 2011
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Probing what she imagined to be Jefferson's inner life, Brodie concluded that Sally Hemings, the slave woman in question, had indeed had a long relationship with Jefferson and had borne him children.
Scandals in Truth Or Just in Print H.W. Brands 2011
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Slavery in America would have been over long before the first dawn's early light that Thomas Jefferson heaved his sweaty self off of Sally Hemings.
in which i go there. newspaper_rock 2009
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