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Season 18 Episode 14: Jefferson's Blood

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."

Genre:

Documentary, News

Seasons:

45

Episodes:

852

Actor:

Will Lyman

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1983

IMDb:

6.7