New 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.
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1 viewpointDNA test on Thomas Jefferson’s hair provides ‘extraordinary proof’ he fathered kids with slave Sally Hemings — other chilling other breakthroughs