Jefferson's Blood
This paper is on the movie Jefferson's Blood. The movie is about the third president of the
united states Thomas Jefferson. He had a secret which at this time could have ruined his
whole career. He married the daughter of a wealthy land and slave owner named John
Wayles. Soon after the Marriage John Wayles died and left everything to his oldest
daughter. Back in these times a woman couldn't own land, so Thomas Jefferson got the land
and slaves. Along with those slaves was Betty Hemings, John's mistress who was mixed. She
was the mother of Sally Hemings, which was the half sister of Thomas's wife. Sally then
became Thomas's wife's bed aid while she was sick and dying. After she died Thomas
became a spokesmen for Paris, which had him spending a lot of time over there. When he
went to Paris he took his personal slave Jupiter with him to learn French cooking. At the
same time Paris had laws against slavery and Jupiter found......
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