Madison Hemings
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Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings. He was the third of Sally Hemings's four children to survive to adulthood. Enslaved since birth, in accord with the legal doctrine of partus sequitur vent
1870 federal census of Ross County, Ohio; enumerator broke protocol to note of Madison Hemings, "This man is the son of Thomas Jefferson."
Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson Medallion Portrait, 1805, the year that Madison Hemings was born
Monticello from the book The Bloom of Monticello, 1826, the year of Thomas Jefferson's death and the year before Hemings was freed
The Liberator about the connection between the Hemings family in Ohio and Thomas Jefferson, 1845
Frederick Madison Roberts
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Frederick Madison Roberts was an American newspaper owner and editor, educator and business owner; he became a politician, the first known man of African-American descent elected to the California Sta
Madison Hemings
…who served the Union Army in the Civil War, both of whom enlisted as white men in the regular army. Among Madison and Mary Hemings's grandchildren was Frederick Madison Roberts, the first African American elected to office on the West Coast. He served in the California legislature for nearly two decades. In 2010, their descendant…
Roberts c. 1932.