Portrait by Artist to Come
James Hemings, brother of Sally Hemings, was a Monticello slave who, when Thomas Jefferson was in Paris, trained as a chef so that he could return to Monticello and train other slaves to cook in the French style. Jefferson freed him in 1796, after he had trained his brother, Peter, to master French cooking.
Sadly, the transition to freedom was not successful and James died a few year later in 1801. He was only 36 (or 37).CONNECTED TO:
| Jefferson, Thomas