CSPAN3 Poplar Forest Archaeology February 17, 2018
I am the director of archaeology and landscapes. We have in our laboratory a small collection of a much larger collection of artifacts that we recovered from almost 30 years of excavation. We used archaeology to understand Thomas Jeffersons landscape,derstand the houses he designed. We are also using it as the lives of enslaved people. When jefferson received the plantation, it was already a working plantation. It was large in size, but there is only a handful of enslaved People Living and working here. Overtime, jefferson started to increase the labor force by moving other slaves on the prope...