Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Author/editor: Department publications
Publisher: School of History
Year published: 2011
School/Centre: School of History

Abstract

Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people over the course of his adult life.  Most lived and worked at his famous home, Monticello.

This paper examines Jefferson's complicated relationship to slavery - what he wrote about it and how he lived it at the plantation that occupies an iconic place in the American imagination.

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