The story begins as a historical novel, telling the story of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his Afro-American mistress Sally Hemings, a young woman with a "skin that was too white to be quite black and too black to be quite white."
Arc d'X begins with the story of the love affair between Thomas Jefferson and a slave girl, Sally Hemings.
Tina Andrews wrote the 2001 nonfiction book Sally Hemings: An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial Truth, which tells about her work writing and producing the miniseries about Sally Hemings for sixteen years.
Sally Field | Sally Phillips | Sally Kellerman | Sally Struthers | Sally Jessy Raphael | Sally Hemings | Sally Ride | Sally Potter | Sally Kirkland | X-Legged Sally | Sally Rand | Eston Hemings | Sally Perdue | Sally O'Neil | Sally | When Harry Met Sally... | Sally Price | Sally Timms | Sally Quinn | Sally Oldfield | Sally Knyvette | Sally Gray | Sally Bedell Smith | Madison Hemings | When Harry Met Sally | Subway to Sally | Sally Solomon | Sally Salisbury | Sally Robbins | Sally McKenzie |
It is a collection of three of Farmer's stories from the series Weird Heroes published in the 1970s with the title character, a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, working for the Acme Zeppelin Corporation as a blimp pilot and private detective.
In a letter to James Parton he relates that the family believed Jefferson's nephew Peter Carr was the father of Sally Hemings's children.
Jefferson's sons by Sally Hemings: Beverly, Madison and Eston, were each apprenticed to John Hemmings at the age of 14 for training as fine carpenters.
Wayles is widely believed to have taken his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings as a concubine after being widowed the third time; he had six children with her, of whom the youngest was Sally Hemings.
He was among the scholars who was commissioned by the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society in 1999 to review materials about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, after the 1998 DNA study was published indicating a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Eston Hemings, the youngest son.
From the Diary of Sally Hemings is a song cycle for voice and piano, with libretto by Sandra Seaton.
Florence Quivar performed From The Diary of Sally Hemings in 2001 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, and again at the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress.
In 2010, soprano Alyson Cambridge performed From the Diary of Sally Hemings at Carnegie Hall.