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Jefferson's descendants 1) invited some of Hemings' descendants to attend an exclusive family gathering (the "Monticello Association"); 2) voted down a motion to eject the Hemings clan from the gathering; 3) voted down a proposal to make the Hemingses honorary members immediately; and 4) appointed a committee to decide whether the Hemingses are real descendants or impostors (despite demonstrated genetic links).
Jefferson and Hemings engaged in a long-term, and perhaps monogamous, relationship for almost 30 years!
Hemings, who was 29 years younger than Jefferson, was herself the mulatto half-sister of Jefferson's wife.
The cover story reports on new DNA tests confirming that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Jordan's collaborator will be legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, an untenured professor at New York University's law school, who swept to prominence last year with the publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Hailed as the definitive account of Jefferson's long-rumored love affair with the slave Sally Hemings, Gordon-Reed's book argues that historians should give credence to the story of Jefferson's mistress and their six children.