Sally Hemings An American Scandal

A 4 part CBS Limited Series by Tina Andrews

Paris, 1784. Thomas Jefferson was appointed U.S. Ambassador to France. Sally Hemings was his beautiful slave at Monticello. What happens when she escorts his young daughter to Paris where there is no slavery? And what happens when he returns with her to become the third President of the United States?

The controversial story of the 38-year relationship between the third American President, Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and Sally Hemings, the beautiful slave he owned at Monticello--who was his dead wife's half-sister. The story begins in France, 1784, when Sally escorts Jefferson's youngest daughter to Paris. Slavery has been abolished, and the moment she touched French soil, she was free. Sally looks exactly like his dead wife, whom Jefferson is still mourning. So, he educates Sally, teaches her to speak fluent French, and dresses her in the finest Parisian clothing, to the consternation of her older brother, James, the brilliant chef who cooks for Jefferson and the cream of Parisian society. Sally loves how she is treated in Paris, and she and Jefferson ultimately begin a relationship. But Jefferson is recalled to America to become Secretary of State, then Vice-President. Sally and James return with him. Sadly, back into slavery. Then Jefferson runs for President. But the relationship is discovered by his political enemies--and what happens becomes the stuff of the word "Scandal" in the title. Jefferson and Sally have seven children together, and he never overcame the scandal. Though they stayed together until his death, did she love him? Did he love her? And yet all of their children together were freed in his will upon his death. You make your own decision.

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