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Descendants’ Voices at Monticello: Gayle Jessup White

Gayle Jessup White is related to the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and the people he enslave

12/13/2022 | Rating TV-PG

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Descendants’ Voices at Monticello: Gayle Jessup White

Clip: Season 1 Episode 20 | 4m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Gayle Jessup White is related to the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and the people he enslave

“I couldn’t put together in my 13-year-old mind how a little Black kid growing up in Washington, D.C. could be related to the third president of the United States of America,” said Gayle Jessup-White. She learned through DNA testing that she is related to two families who once lived at Monticello – the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and a family that he enslaved.

12/13/2022 | Rating TV-PG

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