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Article: The Fable of Tom and Sally.(disputing the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation report that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemmings' children)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- May 21, 2001
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The claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemmings has been shown to be baseless by a learned group of nation's most distinguished scholars.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which owns and manages our third president's home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., came to a startling conclusion in January 2000, just as it was about to announce a $100 million capital-gifts campaign: Jefferson was a man who secretly conducted a sexual liaison with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and fathered her six illegitimate children -- a sordid affair covered up by a conspiracy of silence on the part of Jefferson and all of his legitimate ...