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* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.
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Sally and Hemings
Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.
A 1998 DNA study showed a match between the Jefferson male line and a male descendant of Sally Hemings.
In 1802, allegations surfaced that he was also the father of his slave Sally Hemings ' children.
By chance, Sally Hemings, a younger sister of James, was chosen ; she lived in the Jefferson household in Paris for about two years.
According to her son Madison Hemings, Sally and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris and she became pregnant.
A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the household slave who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.
New research, publications and training for guides has been added since 2000, when the Foundation's Research Committee concluded it was highly likely that Jefferson had fathered Sally Hemings ' children.
Sarah " Sally " Hemings ( Charles City County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835 ) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson through his wife's inheritance.
In 1787 Sally Hemings at the age of 14 was chosen to accompany Mary ( Polly ), the youngest daughter of Jefferson, to Paris to rejoin her father ; the widower was serving as the US Minister to France.
Sally Hemings served in Jefferson's household as a domestic servant until his death.
Even though he was deeply in debt, Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings ' children: Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston, as they came of age.
Sally Hemings was born to Elizabeth Hemings ( 1735-1807 ), the daughter of Susannah, an enslaved African, and John Hemings, an English sea captain.
Several sources assert that the widower John Wayles took his slave Betty Hemings as a concubine and had six children by her during the last 12 years of his life ; the youngest was Sally Hemings.
According to the law, Elizabeth and her children, including Sally Hemings, and all their children, were legally slaves, even when the fathers were the white masters.
The teenage slave Sally Hemings was chosen to accompany Polly to France.
Sally Hemings remained in France ( where slavery was illegal ) for 26 months.
He paid Sally Hemings the equivalent of $ 2 a month.
Sally Hemings also was learning French.
In 1789, Sally and James Hemings returned to the United States with Jefferson.
According to Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings's first child died soon after her return from Paris.
Sally Hemings ' documented duties at Monticello included being a nursemaid-companion, lady's maid, chambermaid, and seamstress.
While Sally Hemings worked at Monticello, she had her children nearby.
Sally and American
* 1981 – Sally Pressman, American dancer and actress
The first Western record of the atoll was on September 2, 1796 when the American brig Sally accidentally grounded on a shoal near the islands.
* 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
* 1912 – Sally Kirkland, American writer and editor ( d. 1989 )
* 1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
* 1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut ( d. 2012 )
* 1946 – Sally Field, American actress
* 1944 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
* 1897 – Sally Benson, American screenwriter ( d. 1972 )
When Harry Met Sally … is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner.
The When Harry Met Sally ... soundtrack album features American singer and pianist Harry Connick, Jr .. Bobby Colomby, the drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the director a tape of the musician's music.
** Sally Ride, American astronaut ( d. 2012 )
** Sally Struthers, American actress
** Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor ( d. 1989 )
** Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
* July 23 – Sally Flynn, American singer
* November 6 – Sally Field, American actress and singer
* October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
* April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress ( d. 1979 )
* June 18 – Sally O ' Neil, American actress ( b. 1908 )
* December 13 – Sally Mansfield, American actress ( d. 2001 )
* June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress ( MASH )
** Sally Eilers, American actress ( b. 1908 )
* August 31 – Sally Rand, American dancer ( b. 1904 )
The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.
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