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Frontline Season 18 Episode 14 Jefferson's Blood 1999

In "Jefferson's Blood," FRONTLINE correspondent Shelby Steele and producer Tom Lennon re-examine Jefferson's life, and piece together the little that can be known about Sally Hemings. Steele and Lennon also explore the repercussions of the Jefferson-Hemings relationship for the couple's modern-day descendants, many of whom are still attempting to find their place along America's blurred color line. "[Jefferson] spawned two lines of descendants--one legitimate, one not," Steele says in the documentary. "And this bastardized part of his family would be driven by a sense of incompleteness."

  • Released: 2000-05-02
  • Runtime: 55 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary, News
  • Stars: Will Lyman
  • Director:


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