... and by 1760 there were about 325,800 African slaves in North America. This was the most brutal and cruelest treatment any man could tolerate. Africans were the perfect choice of slave to farm in colonial American, because slavery had already existed in Africa. African natives were ... claimed in a newspaper conference that he and his sister Harriet and two brothers, Beverley and Eston, were Jefferson's children. In 1998, DNA testing on the offspring of Jefferson's uncle, Field Jefferson, identified a different chromosome Y halotype, which was also recognized by DNA tests in the descendant...

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