Find out about the 5,000-acre Monticello plantation that was home to both the Jefferson family and an extended community of workers that some years included up to 130 enslaved individuals.
The Monticello plantation was both an agricultural farm, where wheat, tobacco and other crops were grown, and a site of "cottage" industries, including a textile factory, a blacksmith shop, nailmaking and barrelmaking operations, and water-powered mills.
Family, labor, economy, punishment, and resistance shaped the lives of free and enslaved men, women, and children.
Picturing Mulberry Row - understanding slavery at Monticello through this critical component of the greater plantation (5 min.)
Jefferson's Daily Ride - a retracing of Jefferson's daily ride around his Monticello plantation (5 min.)
"The whole machine would move in exact equilibria" - Jefferson Seeks to Perfect the Wheat Harvest (1.5 min.)
