Delay in Decision to Admit Slave’s Family
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Thomas Jefferson’s descendants, at the annual meeting of the Monticello Assn. in Charlottesville, Va., again put off a decision on whether to allow the descendants of Jefferson slave Sally Hemings into their organization. The delay frustrated Hemings’ descendants who attended seeking formal acceptance of their family tradition that Jefferson and Hemings had children together. At issue is membership in the group and burial rights at Monticello, the third president’s estate in the Virginia foothills.
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