History Has Changed with This Eye Opening Discovery at Thomas Jefferson’s Plantation

What Happened to Sally’s Kids?

Out of the six children that Hemings had, she only had four that survived into adulthood: Madison, Eston, Beverely, and Harriet. All, except for Madison, moved up North to get away from the hard ships of living in the south as a mixed person. Madison had written a memoir, where valuable information was held about his life and his siblings. Beverly and Harriet both married white, affluent men in Washington, D.C. Madison and Eston had married a free woman of color in Charlottesville, and Eston changed his last name to Jefferson, in order for people to not forget where he came from.

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