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Many Hemings descendants were unaware of any African-American ancestry (Hemings was a mulatto) and equally unaware that they were related to a president.
USAT fronts, and the other papers stuff, the finding announced yesterday by the foundation that maintains Thomas Jefferson's home and the preponderance of documentary materials relating to him, that, yes, he almost surely fathered one of his slave Sally Hemings' six children and probably all six of them.
In addition, Hemings was the half-sister of Jefferson's wife.
The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings controversy flared up again.
and delighted-to-be-here voice-overs" (John Leonard, New York ). "At times you may feel you've tuned into a commercial for Colonial interiors or an online flower show" (Walter Goodman, the New York Times ). Burns earns muted praise for his evenhanded if inconclusive portrait of Jefferson, particularly for his treatment of the Sally Hemings question and Jefferson's contradiction-riddled approach toward slavery.