A clipping of hair labeled as Thomas Jefferson’s in the collections of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, his primary home and plantation. Hugh Talman/Smithsonian Institution
Hugh Talman/Smithsonian Institution
For more than 200 years, one question about the nation’s third president has lingered: Did Thomas Jefferson father children with Sally Hemings, a woman 30 years his junior whom he held in slavery?
The question has long been part of debates over slavery, race, power and
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