Biography on betty hemings

Mother of Sally Hemings

Elizabeth Hemings (c. 1735 – 1807) was a female slave of mixed-ethnicity in colonial Virginia. With her owner, planterJohn Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings. These children were three-quarters white, and, following the condition of their mother, they were considered slaves from birth; they were half-siblings to Wayles's daughter, Martha Jefferson.

Biography of Betty Hemings

After Wayles died, the Hemings family and some 120 other slaves were inherited, along with 11,000 acres and £4,000 debt, as part of his estate by his daughter Martha and her husband Thomas Jefferson.

More than 75 of Betty's mixed-race children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were born into slavery. They were forced to work on Jefferson's plantation of Monticello.^[1] Many had higher status positions as chefs, butlers, seamstresses, weavers, carpenters, blacksmiths, gardeners, and musicians in the household.^[2] Jefferson gave some of Betty's slave d Toggle share options PULOD