When Clinton got in trouble for diddling his intern, suddenly there was DNA linking Jefferson to a slave child. Just realize that the same DNA that linked the child to a male member of the Jefferson family - COMPLETELY EXONERATED Thomas Jefferson. It was NOT his DNA.
But you don’t read that in the papers, on purpose.
“Jefferson to a slave child.”
That story has been going around for a number of years. Sally Hemings grew up in the Jefferson house and did, 6 years after Jefferson’s wife died, have an affair with Jefferson in France and did bore him children in time according to the different studies.
People wonder why he didn’t free her but according to the laws at that time in Virginia, a freed slave had to leave the state and she would have been homeless and living in very unsafe conditions. And mixed marriages were unlawful in Virginia at that time.
Hemings was of mix race and was Jefferson’s passed wife half sister. So the only way he could have taken care of her was for her to remain a slave. She was freed by Jefferson’s daughter along with her family after his death. But that was in later years and the laws were being stretched a lot.
As for the DNA, the design and methodology of the DNA analysis reported by Dr. Eugene Foster et al. in the journal Nature is sound and straightforward and meets the current standards of the scientific community. But this study was done not with Thomas Jefferson DNA, but with in line descendants and a matching of the chromosomes. The only thing they did come up with was some chromosomes that matched the Jefferson line. Blurred.
rwood