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- This epic television miniseries explores the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38-year, ocean-spanning love affair that produced children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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This epic television miniseries explores the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38-year, ocean-spanning love affair that produced children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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- 2000-02-13
- Biography, Drama, History
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The Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his slave and sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and whether he fathered some or all of her six recorded children.
Based in part on the 1981 Jefferson biography by historian Fawn Browdy and propelled by the recent DNA evidence of the Hemings-Jefferson relationship, “Sally Hemings” will certainly garner ...
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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The first installment in this two-part historical miniseries about the decades-long clandestine relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. The program begins as Sally explains that she was born into slavery, though she and her family were, unusually, permitted last names and treated with some degree of respect. Everyone is p...
NETWORK:CBSDATE:9:00 PMRUNNING TIME:1:26:32COLOR/B&W:ColorCraig Anderson … Executive ProducerWendy Kram … Co-Executive ProducerTina Andrews … Co-Executive Producer, WriterMarty Eli Schwartz … Supervising ProducerThomas Jefferson (Sam Neill) tells his mistress Sally (Carmen Ejogo) that he hates slavery, but as a powerful man of influence, including a signer of The Declaration of Independence, and owner of Monticello, and eventually President of the United States, he struggles with the issue.
Brief Synopsis. Miniseries that tells the story of the 38-year relationship between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave mistress Sally Hemings. Set against the backdrop of pivotal events in our nation's early history, the drama explores not only the love story between Hemings a.
