[Answer] 1. Which domestic slave reputedly had Thomas Jefferson's illegitimate children?

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...1. Beverly Hemings 2. Betty Hemings 3. Harriet Hemings 4. Sally Hemings Sarah 'Sally' Hemings was a slave born around 1773 and owned by Thomas Jefferson "through his wife's inheritance". She had six children of which four grew to adulthood, i.e., Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston, and were rumored to resemble President Jefferson. There has been an on-going controversy with regard to the paternity of Ms. Hemings' progeny and, in 1998, a DNA study found a match between the Jefferson lineage and a descendant of Sally Hemings' last son, Eston. Jefferson freed all four of the children as they came of age. Hemings never married but lived to see a grandchild "born in a house which her sons owned".

[Ans] What novel tells the story of a slave named Kunta Kinte?

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Kunta Kinte is a character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots was a mixture of fact and fiction. The novel was made into a TV miniseries and first aired in January 1977. In the original miniseries, the character was portrayed as a teenager by LeVar Burton and as an adult by John Amos.

[Answer] What novel tells the story of a slave named Kunta Kinte?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What novel tells the story of a slave named Kunta Kinte?"

...Kunta Kinte is a character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots was a mixture of fact and fiction. The novel was made into a TV miniseries and first aired in January 1977. In the original miniseries, the character was portrayed as a teenager by LeVar Burton and as an adult by John Amos.