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From: Sam Sloan <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup K2 Found in Two British Jeffersons
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:41:06 -0400


Thank you for your letters.

I have written a book about this that just came out today in a new edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Children-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/1881373029/

If you are interested in obtaining this book, be sure to get the new
edition, just out today, with the girl on the cover, as the older editions
do not discuss the DNA evidence.

The new edition has 142 new pages, or a total of 472 pages in all. Most of
the new pages discuss the DNA retesting that has taken place in 2007.

However, the last 14 pages are of special interest because they include
four letters I have uncovered from the Great Granddaughter of Sally Hemings
which indicate what happened to Sally and her children after Thomas
Jefferson died in 1826 (there is no further record of her) and also suggest
that Thomas Jefferson had other slave children by other mistresses besides
Sally.

I refer to these four letters as "The Captain Letters". It seems possible
that the name "Captain" may come from the belief that Sally's grandmother
was brought to America by a "Captain Hemings". These letters have never
been published anywhere previously.

Sam Sloan

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