Episode
Frontline: Jefferson's Blood
Overview
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."
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 18
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2000-05-02
- Runtime
- 86 min
Episode context
Jefferson's Blood is Episode 14 in Season 18 of Frontline. It aired on 2000-05-02. The runtime is 86 min.
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