Just getting the view from the side rarely mentioned in our school history texts. As for Jefferson, it is only recently, in the last few years that his Black Descendants have been officially recognized through DNA tests, though it was used against him politically. It just something slave owner often did, but it was not polite to talk about. It was something their wives often knew about and hated.

As I have some slave owning ancestors before the Civil War, I think likely that I have some Black cousins who are just as much Blackwell descendants as I am.