Hemings, a slave who was also a half-sister of Jefferson ... that it is “ridiculous even to consider the notion that Thomas Jefferson could ever have been under the positive influence of ...

Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal ... But 250 years ago, even without the imbalance of power created by ...

“Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson,” that in 1769 he and his cousin proposed a bill that would shift control of emancipation from the general court to slave owners. He stated that the House of ...

This kind of thinking continued with America's Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson condemned slavery and warned of its dangers, saying in 1820 that enslaving a human was like ...

the enslaved personal chef of Thomas Jefferson. Hemings was also Jefferson’s brother-in-law by marriage, his parents being Jefferson’s father-in-law John Wayles and Wayles’ slave Betty Hemings.

Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries ... has come under fire in recent years because of his history with ...