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Sheep

Submitted by mattd on Fri, 2010-08-06 08:59
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Sheep

In the summer of 1793 Thomas Jefferson was thinking about sheep [1]. He was then living far from his Virginia plantation, on the outskirts of the nation's largest city. Still harnessed to the Department of State, he dreamed daily of retirement from public life and the luxury of complete immersion in the restoration of his long-neglected farms.

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Monticello Explorer: Garden Pavillion
Historic Landscape Institute
Jefferson: the Scientist and Gardener
Monticello Plantation Model
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A New Discovery on Mulberry Row (Slightly Wonkish)

Submitted by fneiman on Wed, 2012-05-09 00:00
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Earlier this year, Monticello's archaeology team located the remains of a previously undocumented building on Mulberry Row. The new find consists of a brick paving that served as the floor of a log structure whose walls have left no visible trace. Only the northern edge of the paving has been excavated. Archaeologists unearthed it at the bottom of a 20-foot long test trench excavated across Mulberry Row to establish the depth of the Jefferson-era ground surface.

A New Discovery on Mulberry Row (Slightly Wonkish)

Submitted by fneiman on Wed, 2012-05-09 00:00
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Earlier this year, Monticello's archaeology team located the remains of a previously undocumented building on Mulberry Row. The new find consists of a brick paving that served as the floor of a log structure whose walls have left no visible trace. Only the northern edge of the paving has been excavated. Archaeologists unearthed it at the bottom of a 20-foot long test trench excavated across Mulberry Row to establish the depth of the Jefferson-era ground surface.

Property

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How did Jefferson acquire his slaves?

Jefferson acquired most of the over six hundred slaves he owned during his life through the natural increase of enslaved families. He acquired approximately 175 slaves through inheritance: about 40 from the estate of his father, Peter Jefferson, in 1764, and 135 from his father-in-law, John Wayles, in 1774. Jefferson purchased fewer than twenty slaves in his lifetime, in some cases to unite spouses and in others to satisfy labor needs at Monticello.

Breaking Ground: Gillette Family Garden

Submitted by TJMonticello on Sat, 2011-05-07 00:00
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In January 2012 the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), in partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, opened the exhibition Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty.  The exhibition is on view in the NMAAHC gallery at the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (NMAH) through Oct. 14, 2012.

Monticello highlights slaves' role on plantation and afterward

Submitted by TJMonticello on Wed, 2011-12-28 15:45
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The AP's Zinie Chen Sampson writes about three new projects launching this winter to shed light on the slaves who lived and worked at Monticello.

The article has appeared in several U.S. media outlets as well as in the UK and India.

Monticello highlights slaves' role on plantation and afterward

Submitted by TJMonticello on Wed, 2011-12-28 15:45
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The AP's Zinie Chen Sampson writes about three new projects launching this winter to shed light on the slaves who lived and worked at Monticello.

The article has appeared in several U.S. media outlets as well as in the UK and India.

Cinder Stanton, author of "Those Who Labor for My Happiness" Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

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Cinder Stanton is the author of four books, including her latest “Those Who LaboLucia “Cinder” Stanton is Monticello’s Shannon Senior Historian. She is recognized as the leading interpreter of Jefferson’s life as a planter and master of the lives of his slaves and their descendants.

Betsy Hemmings

Submitted by mattd on Fri, 2010-08-06 08:58
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Betsy Hemmings

Betsy Hemmings was born at Monticello in 1783, daughter of Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings's oldest child, Mary, and an unidentified father.[1]  As an infant she was taken to the house of a respected white merchant on Charlottesville's Main Street.

Footnotes

  • 1. Betsy's last name is spelled with two "m"s, unlike most other members of her family, because this is the way it was spelled on her gravestone.
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"

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Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello by Cinder Stanton