Frontline
Season 18 Episode 14 - Jefferson's Blood
7.3 ?
1983
Documentary, News
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."
Episodes in Season 18
1
John Paul II: the Millennial Pope
2
Secrets of the SAT
3
Mafia Power Play
4
The Lost Children of Rockdale County
5
Apocalypse! (2)
6
Justice for Sale
7
The Case for Innocence
8
The Killer at Thurston High
56 min
9
The Survival of Saddam
10
Assault on Gay America
11
War in Europe
12
Dr Solomon's Dilemma
13
What's Up With the Weather?
14
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