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James Hemings
Virginia | 1919-Present
James Hemings was born in Virginia in 1765. At 8 years old he became enslaved to Thomas Jefferson through an inheritance. After Jefferson was appointed commerce minister to France in 1784 , he and Hemings, then 19 years old, set sail for Paris, which is where Hemings began his cooking career, becoming the first American trained as a French chef.
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