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Paternity study ties Jefferson to slave

Supporting rumors usually dismissed by historians, a DNA analysis suggests Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.

References:

Foster, E.A., et al. 1998. Jefferson fathered slave’s last child. Nature 396(Nov. 5):27.

Lander, E.S., and J.J. Ellis. 1998. Founding father. Nature 396(Nov. 5):13.

Sources:

Eugene A. Foster
6 Gildersleeve Wood
Charlottesville, VA 22903

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12, 1998, p. 379.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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