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According to people who knew her Sally Hemmings was white with long dark hair. Some have speculated that she looked like her half sister Martha (Thomas Jefferson's wife) but nobody knows for sure. She was not mulato looking because she was 3/4 white having a white father and 1/2 black mother
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How old was Sally Hemmings when she died?
62
Sally hemmings education?
sally did not have formal edu. because she was a slave and slaves didn't really get formal edu. any one else like turtles?
Why was it seen as bad for Thomas Jefferson to have a relationship with Sally Hemmings?
Because Sally was Jefferson's Wife's step sister.
What is sally hemmings connection to Thomas Jefferson?
Sally Hemmings is most well-known as being one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, with whom he had and affair while he was marrid. What is less well-known is that she was a half-sister to Thomas Jefferson's wife. Jefferson's wife's father had had an affair with one of his own black slaves. Sally Hemmings is the child born of that affair.
Who was Jefferson's first wife's name?
Martha. He also had a mistress named Sally Hemmings.
What is one name of a female slave?
Sally Hemmings. She was the slave of Thomas Jefferson and had his children.
Was Sally Hemmings a slave?
Yes Sally Hemmings was a slave. Her mother Betty was the slave to the Wayles family (the family of Thomas Jefferson's wife). Betty had six children by Martha's father. When Martha's father died Thomas Jefferson received about 200 slaves including Betty and her daughter Sally.
Was Sally Hemmings George Jefferson's Mulatto daughter?
No. George Jefferson didn't have a daughter. He had a mulatto (or, as George referred to her, a "zebra") daughter-in-law, Jenny (Willis) Jefferson, the wife of his son Lionel. Sally Hemmings is associated with Thomas Jefferson, but not as a daughter. She was a slave owned by him, and DNA tests have shown that at least one of Sally Hemmings' children was fathered by a male in Jefferson's family, though not necessarily Thomas Jefferson himself.
What happened to Thomas Jefferson's unnamed child?
All of his 6 children had names and their mother was Sally Hemmings.
Who is the female African American sacrificed her freedom from slavery for the love of the president Thomas Jefferson?
Are you referring to Sally Hemmings, perhaps?
Does Amy meet sally?
no but they look like they both like sonic
What was the name of the slave that Jefferson had an affair with?
Sally Hemmings and it was more than an affair. His wife had died and some years after her death he and Sally got together. She had 6 children by him and they were together until he died.
