Commentary: Thomas Jefferson’s DNA punctures America’s slavery amnesia

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New research using a strand of hair from Thomas Jefferson has effectively settled a longstanding, acrimonious debate: He almost certainly fathered children with Sally Hemings, a young Black woman he enslaved.

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