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Interpreting Slavery at Monticello


Gathering the Community at Monticello | Coming To The Table

... slave-owning family. For an entire year, all of my reading was about slavery, plantation history and African American history, and that reading material ...

Life At Jefferson's Monticello, As His Slaves Saw It - NPR

Thomas Jefferson's very existence was shaped and enabled by slavery. Slaves placed newborn Thomas in his cradle, and slaves comforted the ...

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness": Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's ...

... slaves and their descendants. This volume represents the first attempt to pull together Stanton's most important writings on slavery at Monticello and beyond.

Sally Hemings | National Women's History Museum

Therefore, her position allowed her to avoid most of the physical violence associated with slavery, but her status as property left her vulnerable to her ...

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas ...

Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello mansion and uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings.

An App Tells Painful Stories Of Slaves At Monticello's Mulberry Row

The Slavery at Monticello smartphone app allows users to explore the lives of the slaves who lived on Mulberry Row. Users who visit Monticello ...

Slavery at Monticello: Life & Work on Mulberry Row | MW2016

The app also includes exclusive video interviews with living descendants of Jefferson's slaves, offering first-hand insight into the lasting impact of slavery ...

Slavery at Jeƒers˜'s Mont cello: Paradox of Liberty - AWS

Monticello at the new landmark exhibition. Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty, January 2012. Page 2. WINTER 20. 11. 2. The ...

To understand the US's complex history with slavery, look to Thomas ...

... Monticello to engage the families of Jefferson's slaves. Niya Bates, public historian of slavery and African American life at Monticello ...

Monticello's William Barker "Thomas Jefferson - Man and Legacy"

... slavery at Monticello.” Barker began interpreting Jefferson in 1984—fittingly, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Combining the tools of ...

Unearthing Sally Hemings' legacy at Monticello | PBS News

Niya Bates is Monticello's public historian of slavery and African-American life. Niya Bates: We, as Americans, don't address some of the ...

Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites

Interpreting slavery across the country and for diverse visitors. The history of slavery, while traditionally interpreted primarily on southern plantations, is ...

Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (Jeffersonian America ...

But perhaps even more important is the light her writings have shed on the lives of the slaves at Monticello. Her detailed reconstruction for ...

(Re)Living Black Histories with Niya Bates - Vinegar Hill Magazine

... interpret slavery. So, my days were very different at Monticello. Now, I'm a grad student, and my days look pretty much the same. I crack open a book, do ...

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery ...

... Slavery Across America through an unforgettable tour of monuments ... It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the ...

At Monticello, the descendants of slaves bring new understanding to ...

Slavery at Monticello, its first book about the plantation's slaves, was published in 1996. In 1993, the Getting Word oral history project began ...

Telling Their Stories - Colonial Williamsburg

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness": Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello ... I interpret Abram as a figure to represent Black ...

4 Reasons Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Is a Must-See - Prospect Hill

The cellar level of the Monticello house was a horizontal and vertical crossroads. There, enslaved domestic workers, Jefferson family members, slaves ...

Slavery at Monticello: The Untold Story of Thomas Jefferson and His ...

Designed to challenge students to think critically about the topic, Slavery at Monticello includes dozens of primary sources (many from Jefferson's own letters) ...

Chronicles of Monticello's slave families reveal other side of Thomas ...

The exhibit offers a candid look at slavery at Monticello, Jefferson's homestead in Virginia, by zeroing in on the widely different – but equally compelling – ...