DNA Evidence Supports Jefferson Fathering Children With Hemings
Science and archival research backed Madison Hemings’ claim after critics accused him of lying about his parentage.
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In a DNA Breakthrough After 200 Years, Thomas Jefferson’s Hair Links Him to Sally Hemings’ Children
The Smithsonian and a team of researchers say they have the most definitive proof yet about whether former President Thomas Jefferson and a woman he enslaved, Sally Hemings, had children together.
Jefferson DNA Proof: Fathered Children with Sally Hemings
A 15-year Smithsonian research project has sequenced Thomas Jefferson's entire genome from a lock of his hair and matched it against living descendants, producing what researchers call "extraordinary proof" that the third president fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Smithsonian scholar Richard Kurin launched the effort in 2011 after discovering three strands of hair […]
DNA test on Thomas Jefferson’s hair provides ‘extraordinary proof’ he fathered kids with Sally Hemings — and also leads to chilling other breakthroughs
Speculation that Jefferson had children with his slave has swirled since the early 19th century, but now, after 15 years of work, the team of archaeologists, genealogists, molecular geneticists and historians say they have proven the link.
A hairlock turned him over as a father: after 15 years of research, a US team now provides the definitive proof that Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings. The slave was 30 years younger than the slave critic.
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