Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Jefferson–Hemings controversy concerns the question of whether there was an intimate relationship between U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave, Sally Hemings, that resulted in his fathering some or all of her six recorded children. The allegations surfaced as early as the 1790s, and remain somewhat disputed.Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, told a historian in the 1850s that Peter Carr, a nephew of Jefferson's (the son of his sister), had fathered Hemings' children. Historians generally asserted this denial for nearly 180 years. While some historians of the late twentieth century started reanalyzing the body of evidence, for many consensus was not reached until after a Y-DNA analysis in 1998. The DNA study showed a match between the Jefferson male line (which included Thomas Jefferson, eight or nine other Jefferson males who lived within 20 miles of his residence, and various others more distant) and a descendant of Eston Hemings, Sally's youngest son who was born when Thomas Jefferson was 65. It showed no match between the Carr line and the Hemings descendant.In the 21st century, a consensus emerged among historians that the entirety of the evidence suggests Jefferson's paternity for all of Hemings' children. Exhibits at Jefferson's home of Monticello, as well as its recent publications about Jefferson and his times, and other new works published by a variety of scholars, use the new consensus as a basis for studies into Jefferson and the Hemings family.The Smithsonian and Monticello collaborated in a "groundbreaking" 2012 exhibit held in Washington, DC: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty. In its study of the lives of six major enslaved families at the plantation, it noted the consensus on Jefferson's paternity. It is now touring the US. A minority of historians continue to argue against Jefferson's paternity.. }
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- Jefferson–Hemings_controversy abstract "The Jefferson–Hemings controversy concerns the question of whether there was an intimate relationship between U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave, Sally Hemings, that resulted in his fathering some or all of her six recorded children. The allegations surfaced as early as the 1790s, and remain somewhat disputed.Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, told a historian in the 1850s that Peter Carr, a nephew of Jefferson's (the son of his sister), had fathered Hemings' children. Historians generally asserted this denial for nearly 180 years. While some historians of the late twentieth century started reanalyzing the body of evidence, for many consensus was not reached until after a Y-DNA analysis in 1998. The DNA study showed a match between the Jefferson male line (which included Thomas Jefferson, eight or nine other Jefferson males who lived within 20 miles of his residence, and various others more distant) and a descendant of Eston Hemings, Sally's youngest son who was born when Thomas Jefferson was 65. It showed no match between the Carr line and the Hemings descendant.In the 21st century, a consensus emerged among historians that the entirety of the evidence suggests Jefferson's paternity for all of Hemings' children. Exhibits at Jefferson's home of Monticello, as well as its recent publications about Jefferson and his times, and other new works published by a variety of scholars, use the new consensus as a basis for studies into Jefferson and the Hemings family.The Smithsonian and Monticello collaborated in a "groundbreaking" 2012 exhibit held in Washington, DC: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty. In its study of the lives of six major enslaved families at the plantation, it noted the consensus on Jefferson's paternity. It is now touring the US. A minority of historians continue to argue against Jefferson's paternity.".