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Article: A DECLARATION OF LOVE IN CBS' 'SALLY HEMINGS' PRESIDENT'S PASSION EXPLORED.(L.A. Life)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- February 9, 2000
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Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer
Fact: Sally Hemings was a beautiful light-skinned slave of mixed race at Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia plantation, Monticello.
Fact: Hemings as a teen-ager accompanied Jefferson's younger daughter, Mary, to France in 1787 to serve as her lady's maid while the widowed Jefferson was ambassador.
Fact: Hemings, unmarried, bore six children over the next several years, all of whom looked white and at least some of whom were tall, red-haired and freckled.
Fact: Thomas Jefferson, who was tall, red-haired and freckled, traveled frequently but according to his journals was at Monticello when each ...