Download or read book Summary of the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy written by Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After 1998 DNA tests were misreported as showing Thomas Jefferson fathered a child by the enslaved woman Sally Hemings, the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society invited more than a dozen senior scholars from across the nation to investigate all of the evidence and issue a public report. The book version of that year-long inquiry runs more than 400 pages with more than 1,400 footnotes. This brochure reprints their main conclusions..."--Back cover.