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Pruning Thomas Jefferson's Family Tree. Historians' Report Attacks Theory That 3rd President Fathered Slave's Children ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...
The Monticello Association, which has about 1,000 members, has adamantly denied membership to descendants of Jefferson's black slave, Sally Hemings, citing lack of evidence that Thomas Jefferson ...
For three years, the descendants of slave Sally Hemings have attended family reunions at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation, touring the historic grounds outside Charlottesville alongside ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...
The test that was done proves only that a Jefferson male, not necessarily Thomas, was the father, and there were other adult males in Jefferson’s family who lived nearby.
WITH THE Monticello Association's weekend vote to bar the descendants of Sally Hemings from joining the selected ranks of Thomas Jefferson's documented kin, the formal debate over inclusion of the ...
In her Dec. 2 review of Jon Kukla's book, "Mr. Jefferson's Women," Jan Lewis said that "historians have now finally caught up with the public in believing that Thomas Jefferson was the father of ...
Gayle Jessup White is related to the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and the people he enslave “I couldn’t put together in my 13-year-old mind how a little Black kid growing up in Washington, D.C ...
In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen.Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a ...
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