They have been spurredin part by DNAevidence made available in 1998, whichalmostcertainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at leastonechildwithhisslaveSallyHemings.
Well, incredibly, now using the new tools of genealogy and DNA analysis, we can not only reestablish the lives of many of our slave ancestors and show their tales of torment on the one hand, but triumph on the other.