They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.

1998年公布的 DNA 证据在一定程度上刺激了他们，这些证据几乎可以肯定托马斯·杰斐逊和他的奴隶萨莉·赫明斯至少有一个孩子。

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In "Jefferson in Paris" (1995) Ms. Jhabvala developed the story herself and courted controversy by portraying an affair between the founding father and his slave, Sally Hemings.

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But the chairwoman of the memorial foundation's research committee, Dianne Swann-Wright, noted that President Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings' children when they were adults - a highly unusual move for the time.

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It was perhaps the revelation (or confirmation) of Jefferson's amours with his slave Sally Hemings, and more broadly the changed attitude of Americans to race, that freed them from the waxworks in which they had been imprisoned.

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