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- 1A Single Hair May Confirm Jefferson Fathered Sally Hemings's Children●Jefferson’s link to Sally Hemings’s children may have been settled by a hair
New reporting suggests that DNA evidence from a strand of hair, believed to belong to Thomas Jefferson, may finally settle the long-debated question of whether the founding father fathered children with Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman at Monticello. The find reignites discussion of Jefferson's family legacy and the history of slavery in America, a topic historians have contested for decades.