A look at the life of Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson, who had a 37-year relationship with the U.S. founding father and bore several of his children.&nbsp;

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A look at the life of Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson, who had a 37-year relationship with the U.S. founding father and bore several of his children.

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<p>Slavery was widely practiced throughout the ancient world, and in the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, which helped propel the United States into the Civil War.</p>


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