![]() ![]() ![]() So who was Thomas Woodson? Who was he really? Who was his father? It was the Woodson family's research that uncovered much of the trail that finally linked the Hemings descendants together. It's mysterious because the Woodson family's oral history is so strong - and in fact so accurate about many things, such as Sally Hemings' personal ancestry. ![]() And that while their oral history is emphatic that their ancestor, Thomas Woodson, was Jefferson's son - in fact the "Black Tom" alluded to in Callender's contemporary attack on the President - this young person cannot even be definitively placed on the Monticello plantation. This conclusion is supported by virtually all historians and informed observers, with the only holdouts being the Old Virginia types (as exemplified by some of the reviewers here) who simply refuse to accept that their hero, Thomas Jefferson, had an affair with his African-American slave.īut if you've followed the Hemings controversy you also know that the DNA tests indicated that the Woodson family, the branch with the most robust oral history of their descent from the President, are apparently not related to Thomas Jefferson at all. If you've followed the Jefferson-Hemings controversy, you know that the DNA tests have shown that Jefferson was almost certainly the father of Sally Hemings' children. ![]()
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Serving as the main antagonist of the novel Rose Madder, a unseen antagonist of Insomnia, and a posthumous antagonist of The Dark Tower series. Norman Daniels is a supporting antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. ![]() |