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Quiz
Answer: 200 years.

Examine how historians discounted the Jefferson-Hemings story for two centuries in "The History of a Secret" chronology.


8. How much did Thomas Jefferson offer for the return of a runaway Monticello slave?

·  5 shillings
·  40 shillings
·  ten pounds
·  one hundred pounds

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