Sally Hemings

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13 mentions 8 recordings first heard Nov 2024 last heard 14 Aug ↑10 vs the 6 months before

Enslaved woman owned by Thomas Jefferson, mother of his children, and associated with the Hemings family.

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Clint SmithFresh Air · Reckoning with America’s history of slavery · 10:06 · 14 Aug
…Which included uh Sally Hemings, uh, who was the…
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The Daily250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Foundi... · 25:25 · 3 Jul
…This 200-year-old sex scandal returned to the headlines last week with news of scientific proof now that has confirmed Jefferson's sexual liaison with a woman named Sally Hemings.…
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Jia Lynn YangThe Daily · 250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Foundi... · 25:02 · 3 Jul
…In the late 90s, we get a truly explosive book about Sally Hemings, one of Jefferson's slaves, by the historian Annette Gordon-Reed, and elevates all these accounts that have been lost that Jefferson, in fact, fathered children with Hemings.…
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Eleanor HermanBetwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Lives of American Presidents · 8:41 · 3 Jul
…But he had an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings.…
Hannah RosenRadio Atlantic · American History as Rorschach Test · 12:53 · 2 Jul
…You do not, however, mention Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman……
UnknownRadio Atlantic · American History as Rorschach Test · 3:11 · 2 Jul
…Sally Hemings.…
Randa Abdel-FattahThroughline · The story of July 4th is messier than you remember · 8:21 · 2 Jul
…Robert Hemings, by the way, is the older brother of……
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