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Videos on Freedom of the Press

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Trailblazer. Newspaper publisher. Civil rights titan. Meet William Monroe Trotter, one of the most influential descendants of Monticello’s enslaved community—and someone who too many people have never heard of.

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Monticello historian John Ragosta discusses Jefferson's ideas about the value of a free press in the young democracy.

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