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If you go to jefferson's house, there is an area of the slave quarters. there was a tour guide to talk about what life was like for them. what happened to the balance? >> what happened is a vein of power opened up to what we call the grievance elite, those people who made' of america's racist past. and that power is still there, people grab it. i have been to monticello, too. i did a documentary there some years back. it's an overwhelmingly interesting place. the slave quarters were wide open for all of us to see. th was no attempt to repress that part of jefferson's world. we saw it. and it -...

If you go to jefferson's house, there is an area of the slave quarters. there was a tour guide to talk about what life was like for them. what happened to the balance? >> what happened is a vein of power opened up to what we call the grievance elite, those people who made' of america's racist past. and that power is still there, people grab it. i have been to monticello, too. i did a documentary there some years back. it's an overwhelmingly interesting place. the slave quarters were wide open for all of us to see. th was no attempt to repress that part of jefferson's world. we saw it. and it -...

If you go to jefferson's house, there is an area of the slave quarters. there was a tour guide to talk about what life was like for them. what happened to the balance? >> what happened is a vein of power opened up to what we call the grievance elite, those people who made' of america's racist past. and that power is still there, people grab it. i have been to monticello, too. i did a documentary there some years back. it's an overwhelmingly interesting place. the slave quarters were wide open for all of us to see. th was no attempt to repress that part of jefferson's world. we saw it. and it -...

If you go to jefferson's house, there is an area of the slave quarters. there was a tour guide to talk about what life was like for them. what happened to the balance? >> what happened is a vein of power opened up to what we call the grievance elite, those people who made' of america's racist past. and that power is still there, people grab it. i have been to monticello, too. i did a documentary there some years back. it's an overwhelmingly interesting place. the slave quarters were wide open for all of us to see. th was no attempt to repress that part of jefferson's world. we saw it. and it -...

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