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Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of the mixed-race enslaved woman Sally Hemings and, according to most Jefferson scholars, her enslaver, President Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of her four children to survive to adulthood.
We were the only children of his by a slave woman. He was affectionate toward his white grandchildren, of whom he had fourteen, twelve of whom lived to manhood and womanhood.
Madison and Mary Hemings raised nine children. When his recollections were recorded in 1873, he gave his history in a matter-of-fact manner, referring to Jefferson as his father a number of times. His reputation as a man of his word survived in the family of white neighbors to the present day. Explore: Slavery at Monticello Mobile Guide.
Elizabeth Hemings grew to womanhood in the family of John Wales, whose wife dying she (Elizabeth) was taken by the widower Wales as his concubine, by whom she had six children—three sons and three daughters, viz: Robert, James, Peter, Critty, Sally and Thena.
An in-depth look at Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and bore several of his children, using research, videos, and oral histories, and the recollections of her son Madison Hemings to tell what is known -- and unknown -- about her life and story.
Only two, their daughters Mary Ann Johnson and Ellen Roberts, left the state. Ellen and Andrew J. Roberts became “pioneers” in southern California, thriving in the urban atmosphere of Los Angeles. Their son Frederick M. Roberts was the first black member of the California legislature.
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Jul 4, 2018 · Madison Hemings, the third of the Jefferson-Hemings children who survived into adulthood, offered his account of second-family life at Monticello in a poignant, strikingly detailed memoir...
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