Leigh Fought

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Leigh Fought is a professor emerita of history at Le Moyne College in DeWitt, New York, and the author of the book 'Sally Hemings: Given Her Time.' She is a noted historian who has extensively studied the complex relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, emphasizing the historical importance of Hemings as a figure in American history. Fought has argued that new DNA evidence regarding Jefferson's paternity of Hemings' children reinforces long-held historical conclusions and highlights the need to view Jefferson's legacy in its full context.