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Harriet Hemings (May 1801 – after 1822) was born into slavery at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, in the first year of his presidency.
13. März 2019 · Harriet Hemings was the only surviving daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. She ran away from Monticello in 1822 and became a free woman in Washington, D.C., where she married a white man and passed as white.
2. Apr. 2021 · Harriet Hemings was the daughter of the most powerful man in the country and an enslaved woman thirty years his junior. She grew up in a world where she was both a Jefferson and a slave and lived as both a Black woman and a white woman over the course of her life.
26. Jan. 2018 · Catherine Kerrison’s book tells the story of the third president’s daughters, including Harriet Hemings, who was born a slave.
6. Juni 2018 · Learn about Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who may have been the mother of Thomas Jefferson's children, including Harriet Hemings. Find out her biography, descriptions, residences, and Paris years.
3. Feb. 2018 · Harriet Hemings passed as white to protect her fragile freedom. Jefferson had not issued her formal manumission papers, so until the abolition of slavery in 1865, by law she remained a slave ...
Harriet Hemings was the only enslaved woman freed in Jefferson’s lifetime, and she was freed when she was 21,” according to the Monticello report. Adds Annette Gordon-Reed: “The timing of the freeing of Sally Hemings’ children tracks strongly with the alleged promise that Madison Hemings said Jefferson made to Hemings about when her ...
