Self-evident truths about Thomas Jefferson

From: New York Amsterdam News | Date: November 11, 1998 | Copyright information

New York Amsterdam News
11-11-1998
Self-evident truths about Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton and Warren G. Harding had Negro blood.

Thomas Jefferson mated with his slave mistress Sally Hemings.

These are among a few enduring legends and myths about race in the Black community, and now at least one of them has been recently confirmed through DNA testing.

According to an article in the weekly scientific journal Nature, authored by Eugene Foster, a retired professor of pathology at Tufts University, Jefferson did in fact have at least one child by Hemings, with whom he allegedly had a ...

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