The Root

Jefferson’s Monticello Makes Room for Sally Hemings

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Suggested Reading Everything We Know About The Sherrone Moore Scandal ...
The Daily Progress

Monticello working to restore Sally Hemings' room, once a men's bathroom

While one of the rooms will be dedicated to Hemings and her life, it will not focus on her relationship with Jefferson, according to Niya Bates, public historian of slavery and African-American life ...
The Roanoke Times

For decades they hid Jefferson's mistress – now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings

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 ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For decades they hid Jefferson's mistress - now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings

• 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 ...