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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 16, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson, and had a long-term relationship and six children with him?

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Given the precedent with Julia Chinn who also has no surviving images from her lifetime besides political cartoons, would it be okay to have a cut image of her face from that cartoon Philosophic Cock used as the page image? ~2026-38825-76 (talk) 21:43, 8 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

No. That image is a caricature, with no relation at all to the person's actual appearance. It was done as a pejorative image. The image has been added and rejected/removed from the article before, see Talk:Sally Hemings/Archive 2#Caricature. - Shearonink (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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