Markers like this can be seen all over the city, providing information on people or places that are part of our history. This one, which was leaning precariously, was across from the Hart Senate Office Building and said:

Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave, bore 5 of his children. Sally was never freed.

1 child died.
2 escaped.
2 were freed.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

‘Can’t a guy have some privacy?!’ posted earlier: