Jefferson fathered slave's last child

There is a long-standing historical controversy over the question of US President Thomas Jefferson's paternity of the children of Sally Hemings, one of his slaves,. To throw some scientific light on the dispute, we have compared Y-chromosomal DNA haplotypes from male-line descendants of Field J...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 396; no. 6706; pp. 27 - 28
Main Authors Foster, Eugene A, Jobling, M. A, Taylor, P. G, Donnelly, P, de Knijff, P, Mieremet, Rene, Zerjal, T, Tyler-Smith, C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Nature Publishing Group 05.11.1998
Subjects
DNA
Famous Persons
Female
Haplotypes
Hemings
History of medicine
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Humans
Jefferson
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Paternity
S Hemings
T Jefferson
United States
Y Chromosome
United States
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Summary:There is a long-standing historical controversy over the question of US President Thomas Jefferson's paternity of the children of Sally Hemings, one of his slaves,. To throw some scientific light on the dispute, we have compared Y-chromosomal DNA haplotypes from male-line descendants of Field Jefferson, a paternal uncle of Thomas Jefferson, with those of male-line descendants of Thomas Woodson, Sally Hemings' putative first son, and of Eston Hemings Jefferson, her last son. The molecular findings fail to support the belief that Thomas Jefferson was Thomas Woodson's father, but provide evidence that he was the biological father of Eston Hemings Jefferson.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/23835