Sally Hemings

Sally Hemings was born into slavery in Virginia and lived within the extended Hemings family at Monticello. Sally Hemings belonged to Hemings family. Sally Hemings is generally dated to c. 1773–1835.

She travelled to Paris while young and later negotiated conditions under which her surviving children would eventually be freed, although she herself remained legally enslaved during Jefferson’s lifetime. Sally Hemings was born in Charles City County, Virginia and died in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In Barbara Hambly’s Patriot Hearts, Patriot Hearts interweaves the lives of Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings and Dolley Madison from the Revolutionary era to the British attack on Washington in 1814.