Frontline Episode 18.14 Jefferson's Blood

Frontline Episode 18.14 Jefferson's Blood

Episode Premiere

May 2, 2000

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

GBH

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/

Information

Episode Premiere

May 2, 2000

Genre

Documentary

Period

1983 -

Production Co

GBH

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/

Cast and Crew

Main Cast

Will Lyman

Synopsis

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."

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