And monticellos historic interpretation manager, Brandon Dillard, discuss how depictions of both slavery and jeffersons life have changed over recent decades. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and i am the manager of historic interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around us, we know 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or racia
Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend due to a Global Pandemic and in recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different form of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or ra
Lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document, which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure the anti they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message, being against the yoke or against slavery, is something thats important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. Whitney plantation is the only Plantation Museum in t
An introduction. The name is general lafayette, although i believe that most of your americans know me far better by my name of the old iner of the revolution here america, and that of course is the marquis de lafayette. What a pleasure and honor to see all of you here on this simply magnificent day. July, the day in which we french celebrate the beginning of our revolution. My deare meeting with friend, your thomas jefferson, in hopes that he shall arrive sometime soon, so let us hope we can all have a conversation together. Where is mr. Jefferson . Mon cher, lafayette. Cher, jefferson. What a pleasure it is to see you again over so many years. Years, than 30 absolutely. And with great reverence to bastille day. Just as we celebrate the fourth of july, in france it is the 14th of july. We shall celebrate together, my friend. General, we have not forgotten your assistance in our nation either, and the American Revolution would have never been successful without the aid of france. It is
Interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am they got behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around been aknow 2020 has challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of arele all over the country actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or raciallymotivated monuments, memories. It is a conversation that we must engage in. Weking here at monticello, are a site for memories. Monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. We decided that to have a conversation, we would do something that we havent done. And i am sure everyone knows that wh