Monday, July 03, 2017

Slave quarters of Sally Hemings, mistress of Thomas Jefferson, found at Monticello



adjoined Jefferson's bedroom.
15 x 14’ with fireplace.
She bore him 6 children and was taken with him to Paris.
7-3-2017

From wiki--just read this--excellent--Maggie O'Farrell--

In 2022, she published The Marriage Portrait, a novel based on the short life of Lucrezia de' Medici, who may or may not have been poiso...