AS SEEN ON TV: SALLY HEMINGS

February is Black History Month.....

SALLY HEMINGS

AS SEEN IN:
"Sally Hemings: An American Scandal"

AS PLAYED BY:
Carmen Ejogo

From Wikipedia:
Sally Hemings (Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835) was an African-American slave owned by President of the United States Thomas Jefferson. She was said to have been the half-sister of Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.

Journalists and others alleged during and after Jefferson's presidency that he had consensual sex with her and may have fathered several children with Hemings after his wife's death, but few historians credited the allegation. However, DNA testing conducted in 1998 indicated that a male in Jefferson's line was the father of at least one of Sally Hemings's children, reigniting the debate.

BCnU!