Historians from Monticello’s Getting Word African American Oral History Project share how recent archival research, oral history, and family heirlooms paint a more complete picture of the Great Migration journey of one family descended from Monticello’s enslaved community.

Since 1993, the Getting Word African American Oral History Project has collected and preserved the oral histories of Monticello’s enslaved community and their descendants, creating an archive of freedom and a fuller story of Monticello and the United States.