story; learned of it through reading and PBS films. So moving and unjust what hardship, hate and legalities the beautiful couple was put through for years leading to his rather early illness. Been there.
One day perhaps there will be honest portrayals of the Hemings of Monticello. Not only TJ and Sally, but the 3 generations of concubine black women in the connected Randolph, Jefferson and Eppes families and all the relatives, white and black who lived around each other at the master's plantation, in nearby Charlottesville and later Ohio.
The British film "Belle" (2014) treated the early story of the biracial niece of prominent British Judge, Lord Mansfield who decided the infamous 18th century 'Zong' slave ship legal case that rocked the establishment in the 1780s and helped further open the door to abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire. A beautiful film.
More, Dido Belle..http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/04/dido-belle-slaves-daughter-who-lived-in-georgian-elegance
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