Footsteps articles from November 1999

Footsteps archives from November 1999

Sally Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Her name is linked to one of the most famous men in American history, and yet Sally Hemings remains largely a shadow today. We know of her trip to Paris, the birth of her children, when she died, and that she was well treated in the Jefferson...

The First Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... "I never knew of but one white man who bore the name of Hemings; he was an Englishman and my great-grandfather." So begin the memoirs of Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings' son. Madison recorded his story in 1873 in the Pike County (Ohio)...

`THE Speckled Monster'.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Sally Hemings nervously watched Dr. Robert Sutton scratch her arm and dip a pus-covered quill into the cut. Soon after she had arrived in Paris, Thomas Jefferson had insisted that she be inoculated against smallpox. Smallpox has existed...

Slavery IN JEFFERSON'S VIRGINIA.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Slaves constantly surrounded Thomas Jefferson at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved African Americans cooked his meals, cared for his horses, plowed his fields, picked out his clothes, heated his house, made nails and fabric for...

Free Blacks in Virginia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Not all African Americans in Jefferson's Virginia were slaves. The number of free blacks in Virginia rose dramatically during Jefferson's lifetime, especially after the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Some slaves won their freedom by fighting...

Breakfast Muffins.(Brief Article)(Recipe)
November 1, 1999... Today, in cities and towns throughout the United States, supermarkets and fast-food restaurants offer food products and meals that need only to be cooked or heated before eating. In Sally Hemings' day, meals were all made at home from scratch...

THE DNA ANSWER.(DNA paternity testing - Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... DNA testing is most often used today by police to solve crimes. But in 1998, it was used to try to solve a puzzle that is nearly 200 years old. The detective on the case was a scientist named Dr. Eugene Foster. HOW IT ALL BEGAN One...

The World of Sally Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Time Line 1743 Thomas Jefferson is born. 1768 Thomas Jefferson begins building Monticello. 1773 Sally Hemings is born. 1784 Jefferson is sent to Paris to negotiate treaties of friendship and trade with various...

Annette Gordon-Reed.(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 1999... AN INTERVIEW In 1997, Annette Gordon-Reed, a law professor, wrote the book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. In it she examined every piece of information she could find about Thomas Jefferson and his slave,...

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... For nearly 200 years, Virginia slave Sally Hemings has been the subject of a historical debate about whether she and her owner, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, had a...

Simple AS Black AND White? Not!(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... You are the descendant of a slave woman. You don't look African American at all." Art Westerinen, a descendant of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, nodded in agreement. It was November 2, 1998, and Westerinen was a guest on the...

Madison Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... What would it be like to be the child of a person who considered you his property? What if your father and owner was also the author of the Declaration of Independence, the third president of the United States, the founder of the University of...

The Importance of Learning Who You Are.(Diana Redman)(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 1999... AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANA REDMAN Diana Redman is a direct descendant of Madison Hemings. When she was 17 years old, her grandmother told her that she was also related to a president. At the time, Diana Redman was "too busy with other things"...

A Conversation in Black and White.(Shay Banks-Young and Julia Jefferson)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAY BANKS-YOUNG AND JULIA JEFFERSON Shay Banks-Young and Julia Jefferson are cousins. Shay is descended from Madison Hemings and was raised as a black woman in a black family. Julia, who is descended from Madison's...

`Getting Word'.("Getting Word: Monticello's African-American Oral Project" )(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... When African people came to North America hundreds of years ago, they brought with them their favorite customs and traditions. One was a method of passing on family stories to others. It was each generation's responsibility to pass on the...

Getting Your Own Word.(oral history)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... In this issue of FOOTSTEPS, we read how Sally Hemings' family members passed down their stories and legends. Passing down information orally is an African American tradition. Although long ignored by historians, this oral history or "getting...

Sally Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Some people consider Sally Hemings the best-known enslaved woman in American history. They think that she is better known than Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to write and publish poetry in North America, or Sojourner Truth, who began...

Monticello, the Home Of Thomas Jefferson.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... If you have a nickel in your pocket, pull it out and take a look at the image of Thomas Jefferson on the "head" side. Then flip it over to the "tail." What you see is the famous west view of Monticello, the home Thomas Jefferson designed and...

DESCENDANTS.(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 1999... AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT GILLESPIE Robert Gillespie, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson through his daughter Martha, is the former president of the Monticello Association. What is the purpose of the Monticello Association? The...

YOUR PAGES.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... My Father My father is a great man Accomplishes many things I could never reach But does he even know I exist? I think of him often But see him little Many people speak of him But none know he's my dad ...

BOOKS.(on slavery history; Thomas Jefferson; genealogy)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
November 1, 1999... The Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans by Rachel Kranz (New York: Facts On File, 1992) includes a fact-filled entry on Sally Hemings. Black Women in America -- The Early Years edited by Darlene Clark Hine (New York: Facts On File,...

MEDIA.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Africans in America (four-part video series, 90-minutes each, produced by WGBH Boston, PBS Video, 1998) draws from original source materials and the latest scholarship as it vividly describes the rise and fall of slavery in our nation. ...

RESOURCES.(school material)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Cobblestone magazine's September 1989 issue on "Thomas Jefferson," published by Cobblestone Publishing. (For more information, call 800-821-0115 or visit the Web site at: www.cobblestonepub.com). The Outreach Program, African Studies...

TRAVEL TO MONTICELLO VIA THE INTERNET.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... To learn more about Sally Hemings and Monticello, click on: www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981109/9tom.htm This site provides information about the relationship between Sally Hemings and Jefferson. It talks about the DNA evidence that...

Conference on Sally Hemings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... On the first weekend of March 1999, a group of distinguished scholars met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to discuss the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. As conference organizers, Jan Lewis of Rutgers University, Newark,...

Sally and Tom on Stage.(Brief Article)(Review)
November 1, 1999... On a small stage in a tiny Off-Broadway theater in New York, the story of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson was brought to life in a musical entitled Sally and Tom (The American Way). The play has five characters: James T. Callender (the...