The author painstakingly sifts through the evidence about their relationship and examines the convoluted attitudes that influenced Jefferson’s behavior. Back in Virginia, Jefferson installed Sally in a fairly pampered life at Monticello he sired her numerous children and emancipated them upon his death in 1826.
In 1787, James’s 14-year-old sister Sally came to Paris with Jefferson’s daughter Polly sometime during the French sojourn, she became her master’s mistress. By 1784, he was a widower living in Paris as head of the American commission, accompanied by manservant James Hemings, whom Jefferson took along so he could receive training as a French chef. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, 1997, etc.) grudgingly comes to a sympathetic view of Jefferson, who inherited the mixed-race Hemings family when he married Martha Wayles Skelton in 1772. Gordon-Reed (Law/New York Law School, History/Rutgers Univ. The unusual history of an enslaved family whose destiny was shaped over the course of four decades by Thomas Jefferson.
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