DNA study confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with enslaved Sally Hemings
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- NPR News Now·3h agoNew DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings
A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.
Read at NPR News Now → - Independent Science·6h agoDNA study confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with enslaved Sally Hemings
America’s third president and one of its founding fathers kept more than 600 slaves
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