Poldark, back from fighting the American rebels, ends up marrying his white servant Zemelda.
This comes out particularly well in the first Series with Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees.
He faces opprobrium within his Cornwall lower gentry ranks (not class).
Had Jefferson admitted a common law liaison with Hemings, he would have faced worse in colonial America.
In colonial America, which repudiated the Old European Order, marrying one's white indentured servant would have been acceptable if not Kosher.
But not Hemings, not only an inferior race in part, in white colonists' own Enlightenment terms, but also one's slave rather than an indentured servant.
Poldark, ironically, can out himself, whereas in revolutionary America, Jefferson cannot.
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