In 1850, a 42-year-old former slave with light bronze skin, auburn-tinted hair and a trace of freckles moved with his wife and three children to Madison, Wis. Historical accounts note that Eston ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- A Madison peace and social justice organization held a vigil Friday honoring Eston Hemings Jefferson and reflecting on his legacy in the city. Hemings Jefferson was the son of Thomas ...

In November 1998, a short DNA study titled “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child” was published in the prominent British weekly publication Nature. The title misled. The study showed merely that ...

In a book due out Thursday, eminent scholars say it’s unlikely that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings’ children, disputing a decade’s worth of conventional wisdom that the author of the ...

Dr. Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of the slave Sally Hemings’ children, died Monday at the University ...

That register of popular conceit, Wikipedia, says it plainly: “Most historians now believe that the widower Jefferson took her as a concubine, had six children with her, and an extended relationship ...