A 1999 DNA study placed the father of Sally Hemings’s children in the Jefferson male line, strongly supporting but not proving Thomas Jefferson’s paternity.
A 1999 DNA study placed the father of Sally Hemings’s children in the Jefferson male line, strongly supporting but not proving Thomas Jefferson’s paternity.
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