CSPAN3 Slavery At Thomas Jeffersons Monticello July 4, 2017
Landscape of slavery. You had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the fist thing you would have seen most likely would have ben enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. [ construction noise ]. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of oth...
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