![]() In 1999, DNA tests proved compatible with the possibility that Jefferson had fathered Eston Hemings, Sally’s youngest son. In 1997, law professor Annette Gordon-Reed reviewed the evidence and concluded that the case for Jefferson’s paternity was much stronger than scholars had supposed. Within the last three years, the old story that Thomas Jefferson fathered several children by his slave Sally Hemings-a claim that most Jefferson scholars had earlier considered so implausible that nearly all of them rejected it without a truly rigorous investigation-has gained new credibility and extensive national publicity. ![]()
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