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Our final panel today, which brings together a highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house something thats very near and dear to us here at the White House Historical association, dr. Matthew costello Vice President of the David M Rubenstein National Center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate the conversation. Our first panelist is leslie green bowman president of the Thomas Jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello in addition to this work. She has served b...

Because if you had come up this mountain top 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 mountain top that slavery wasnt visible. And we want to make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullbury row, that main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this was part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentia...

Montcello, you would have seen jeffersons neoclassical villa. But we wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would see most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top slavery wasnt visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullberry row, that main plan tashz street. As well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of ...

Montcello, you would have seen jeffersons neoclassical villa. But we wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would see most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top slavery wasnt visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullberry row, that main plan tashz street. As well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of ...