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Article: THE THOMAS JEFFERSON/SALLY HEMINGS CONTROVERSY: Did Jefferson Also Father Children By Sally Hemings' Sister?
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Woodson Family Presses Case As New Question Emerges:
They knew it all along. For almost 200 years, the story had been passed down from generation to generation. So often had the descendants of Thomas Woodson heard the story--that Thomas Jefferson had a secret relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and fathered several children by her--that "we knew it like religion," says Woodson Family Association President Robert Golden, the great-great-great grandson of Sally Hemings' first-born child, Thomas Woodson.
And so, throughout decades of controversy and cover-up, when writers and scholars and historians insisted that Jefferson was "morally ...