CSPAN3 Slavery At Thomas Jeffersons Monticello May 1, 2017
That have been revealed. If you had visited monticello 20 years ago, you would have just seen jeffersons beautiful new classical villa, but what we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. If you had come up to this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have been 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. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main...