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  1. Confined for long hours in the hot, smoky workshop, the boys hammered out 5,000 to 10,000 nails a day, producing a gross income of $2,000 in 1796. Jefferson’s competition for the nailery was the ...

  2. Jun 24, 2008 · America's FIRST First Black President. June 24, 20083:54 PM ET. By. Farai Chideya. Some say Warren G. Harding, the 29th U.S. President, had black roots. Courtesy of the National Archives ...

  3. Dec 11, 2021 · NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gayle Jessup White about her book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy.

  4. Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was an enslaved woman at Monticello; she lived in Paris with Jefferson and two of his daughters from 1787 to 1789; and, she had at least six children. Sally Hemings's duties included being a nursemaid-companion to Thomas Jefferson's daughter Maria (ca. 1784-1787), lady's maid to daughters Martha and Maria (1787-1797 ...

  5. Jul 4, 2020 · Photos of Thomas Jefferson and Shannon LaNier, one of his Black descendants, is from a Smithsonian Magazine piece that LaNier says holds "a mirror" to the U.S. Shannon LaNier, a TV host in Houston ...

  6. Jan 28, 2010 · Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was an enslaved woman owned by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Hemings and Jefferson had a longstanding romantic relationship, and had at least one and ...

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  8. Sally Hemings returned with Jefferson and his daughters to Monticello in 1789. There she performed the duties of an enslaved household servant and lady’s maid (Jefferson still referred to her as “Maria’s maid” in 1799). Sometime after 1800, Sally Hemings likely lived in one of the rooms of Monticello's South Wing.

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