There are stories where you can look for the possibility of "true love" in a deeply unequal system -- Jefferson and Hemings isn't one though
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In the film they imagine him presenting the 13th Amendment to her as his present and his apology for never marrying her
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Of course he was still a congressman and she was still a housekeeper -- their relationship would not have been unproblematic by any means
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