Finding the Family Tree
In 2008, Annette Gordon-Reed published The Hemingses of Montocello: An American Family, which delves deep into the slave history of the family through legal documents, diaries, farm logs, correspondences, newspapers, archives, and even oral history. What she found was incredible! Sally Hemings’ family tree has many people who made significant changes to the country and kept it moving forward. This is impressive, as it never came out that Jefferson was their father or even in their blood line.