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Label: PBS Manufacturer: PBS Publisher: PBS Studio: PBS Editorial Review: Product Description: VHS- DNA tests prove president Jefferson had relationships with a woman who was his slave. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Oh my-Thomas Jefferson caught in the act of DNAAfter viewing African American Lives 2,Frontline By PBS ; Jefferson's Blood came highly recommended to take another in depth look at the racial mixing of blood in America;this time the focus was on proving or disproving the 300 years of rumor involving President Thomas Jefferson and his slave/mistress,Sally Hemings.This 90 minute expose from PBS dates to the late 1990's when "other-than-white" descendants of this coupling sought rights to be buried in the the Jefferson family cemetery at Monticello,Virginia.This ... Read More Rating: - Thos.Jefferson and slave/mistress Sally Hemings; generations of pain!President Thomas Jefferson,author of the Declaration of Independence and architect of Monticello had many children with his slave,young Sally Hemings,after his wife died.Did you know that Sally Hemings was 3/4's white? Did you know that Sally Hemings was a 1/2 sister to Jefferson's wife? Did you know that upon his death,the Hemings children...Jefferson's own children,were freed and had to make their way as 7/8's white in 19th-Century America? In 1999,ALL descendants of Thomas Jefferson,whether ... Read More |
