A time and a presidency that would try Thomas Paine's soul
“Common Sense” wasn’t simply a call for independence but also a denunciation of monarchies. Paine would be outraged that an ...
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One of the most important chefs in American history was a founding father’s slave
One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...
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One of the most important chefs in American history was a founding father’s slave
the enslaved personal chef of Thomas Jefferson. Hemings was also Jefferson’s brother-in-law by marriage, his parents being Jefferson’s father-in-law John Wayles and Wayles’ slave Betty Hemings.