Thomas Jefferson’s genome sequenced to substantiate belief he fathered Sally Hemings’s children
News from Science says Smithsonian researchers sequenced Jefferson’s genome to substantiate the widely accepted idea that he fathered children with Sally Hemings, a Black woman he enslaved. A Hemings descendant criticized the work and withdrew from the study.
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News from Science reports that Smithsonian researchers sequenced Thomas Jefferson’s genome to substantiate the widely accepted idea that he fathered children with Sally Hemings, whom he enslaved. It says one of Hemings’s descendants criticized the work and withdrew her participation in the study.
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