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Hemings-Jefferson descendants, 2001

Sources: Fawn Brodie, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (New York: Norton, 1974); Annette Gordon-Read, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1997); Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999).Contributor:
Johnson, Richard. Affiliation: University of Washington Available electronically from BlackPast.org.