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Most historians already accept that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, but DNA testing did not involve samples from Jefferson himself.
A single hair stuck to a handmade bible now offers proof.
washingtonpost.com
Jefferson’s link to Sally Hemings’s children may have been settled by a hair
A strand stuck in glue that Thomas Jefferson used to make a Bible is further confirmation for historians and descendants of the third president and the enslaved woman.