This insightful essay describes African American life at Monticello and Jefferson's role as a slaveholder. It includes a fold-out genealogy of the Fossett and Hemingway families.
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Lucia Stanton is Shannon Senior Research Historian at Monticello and author or co-editor of four titles on Jefferson, including Slavery at Monticello and Jefferson's Memorandum Books. She is currently engaged in an oral history project to recover as much information as possible about Jefferson's slaves and their descendants.
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This book is awesome! It is one research paper, but it seems so short and reads so easily. It really opened my eyes to the way of life for Monticello slaves. If you are a Thomas Jefferson fan, you need to read this. It will show you an unbiased view of him as a slaveowner.
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ON JANUARY 15, 1827, Monticello blacksmith Joseph Fossett may have left his anvil to watch the bidding begin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Fossett, Thomas Mann Randolph, Albemarle County, Edmund Bacon, Poplar Forest, Farm Book, Isaac Jefferson, New York, Mulberry Row, Jesse Scott, Sally Hemings, Jeremiah Goodman, Peter Fossett, Joseph Fossett, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Martha Randolph, Massachusetts Historical Society, Burwell Colbert, Ellen Coolidge, John Wayles Eppes, Martha Jefferson, Mary Hemings, Thomas Bell, University of Virginia, Betty Hemings New!
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ON JANUARY 15, 1827, Monticello blacksmith Joseph Fossett may have left his anvil to watch the bidding begin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Fossett, Thomas Mann Randolph, Albemarle County, Edmund Bacon, Poplar Forest, Farm Book, Isaac Jefferson, New York, Mulberry Row, Jesse Scott, Sally Hemings, Jeremiah Goodman, Peter Fossett, Joseph Fossett, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Martha Randolph, Massachusetts Historical Society, Burwell Colbert, Ellen Coolidge, John Wayles Eppes, Martha Jefferson, Mary Hemings, Thomas Bell, University of Virginia, Betty Hemings New!
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- Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie on page 49, page 50, and page 54
- The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Mechal Sobel on page 55
- The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson (TJMF) by Edwin Morris Betts on page 49
- The Private Life by Henry, Jr. James on page 50
- Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution by Ira Berlin on page 47
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- Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello by Lucia Stanton on 5 pages
- Thomas Jefferson's Monticello by William L. Beiswanger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Flap
- Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 by Joshua D. Rothman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen on page 282, and page 301
- Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein in Back Matter
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