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10:01Now PlayingThe Truth About Thomas Jefferson Nobody Taught Us in School
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10:01Now PlayingThe Truth About Thomas Jefferson Nobody Taught Us in School
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Hawk shares his reaction to a new six-part Netflix documentary on Thomas Jefferson, one he says doesn't flinch from the full story of who Jefferson was, including the slavery, the contradictions, and the relationships that most American education left out entirely.
Hawk walks through what he learned in the first few episodes, including the childhood pairing of Jefferson with Jupiter Evans, a enslaved boy his same age whose mother Betty served as wet nurse to the Jefferson family. He covers Jefferson inheriting his father's estate at 14, attending William and Mary at 16, and later inheriting 11,000 acres and 135 slaves including the entire Hemings family after his father-in-law's death.
Hawk then connects the family relationships at the center of the Sally Hemings story, explaining that Betty Hemings had six children fathered by Jefferson's father-in-law, making Sally Hemings Martha Jefferson's half-sister. After Martha died at 33, Jefferson began a relationship with Sally Hemings, who was likely 14 years old at the time, while simultaneously drafting the Declaration of Independence and serving as governor of Virginia.
With America's 250th anniversary approaching, Hawk reflects on the fact that chattel slavery in the United States also lasted roughly 250 years.
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