Legacy and Honors
- In 2007, Mary Hemings was named a Patriot of the Daughters of the American Revolution by virtue of her prisoner of war status during the Revolutionary War. This automatically qualifies her female descendants as eligible to join the DAR. Mary Hemings was the first Monticello slave to be honored by the DAR.
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