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. , Though enslaved, Sally Hemings helped shape her life and the lives of her children, who got an almost 50-year head start on emancipation, escaping the system that had engulfed their ancestors and millions of others. Whatever we may feel about it today, this was important to her. , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon Reed, 2017, Sally Hemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous African American women in U.S.

history. For more than 200 years, her name has been linked to Thomas Jefferson as his "concubine," obscuring the facts of her life and her identity. While sexual encounters between masters and slaves were common, this one was exploited by Jefferson's political enemies to discredit him., Like countless