{"id":52046,"date":"2017-03-05T21:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52046"},"modified":"2017-03-05T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:37:44","slug":"for-decades-they-hid-jeffersons-relationship-with-her-now-monticello-is-making-room-for-sally-hemings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52046","title":{"rendered":"For decades they hid Jefferson\u2019s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings."},"content":{"rendered":"

For decades they hid Jefferson\u2019s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2017-02-19<\/p>\n

Krissah Thompson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBy excavating and restoring areas where the slave community lived and worked, Monticello<\/a> is trying to more fully integrate their stories at the historic plantation. A special focus will be placed on Sally Hemings<\/a>, whose room in the house will soon be on display for the first time.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

CHARLOTTESVILLE<\/a> \u2014 The room where historians believe Sally Hemings<\/a> slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson\u2019s<\/a> bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello<\/a> turned it into a restroom.<\/p>\n

The floor tiles and bathroom stalls covered over the story of the enslaved woman, who was owned by Jefferson and had a long-term relationship with him. Their involvement was a scandal during his life and was denied for decades by his descendants. But many historians now believe the third president of the United States was the father of her six children.<\/p>\n

Time, and perhaps shame, erased all physical evidence of her presence at Jefferson\u2019s home here, a building so famous that it is depicted on the back of the nickel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the floor tiles have been pulled up and the room is under restoration \u2014 and Hemings\u2019s life is poised to become a larger part of the story told at Monticello…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTESVILLE \u2014 The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson\u2019s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,6940,20,693,25],"tags":[11440,918,2875,477,2581],"class_list":["post-52046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","category-women","tag-krissah-thompson","tag-sally-hemings","tag-the-washington-post","tag-thomas-jefferson","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52060,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52046\/revisions\/52060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}