Johns Hopkins Magazine -- September 1999
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A DAUGHTER'S
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A Daughter's Declaration
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By Melissa Hendricks

http://www.monticello.org/Matters/people/ hemings_resource.html
This site contains an exhaustive listing of links to online information on the Jefferson-Hemings story. This site will lead you to the original Nature report that describes the DNA testing of Jefferson and Hemings descendants, plus the letters that study generated. Also contains links to newspaper and magazine stories about the case.

http://www.monticello.org/gettingword/GWtofc.html
This is the site of the Getting Word project. Historians at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation are gathering oral histories of Monticello's African American descendants. Here you'll see photos of African Americans who were born at Monticello and of descendants of Monticello slaves. The site also provides information on daily life at Monticello.

http://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth/
Herbert Barger is an amateur historian who began collecting information on Thomas Jefferson several years ago after discovering that his wife is a descendant of Jefferson's uncle, Field Jefferson. In his Web page, Barger argues forcefully against the alleged Jefferson-Hemings intimacy.


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