For Decades They Hid Thomas Jefferson’s Relationship with Sally Hemings
By Krissah Thompson February 19, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom. The floor tiles and bathroom stalls covered over the story of the enslaved woman,
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