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 an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens offing other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now were actually just near jeffersons main house, the pulaidian mansion he built throughout his life and were standing next to mullberry row which is the main plantation street, about 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research. We kn
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 an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens offing other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now were actually just near jeffersons main house, the pulaidian mansion he built throughout his life and were standing next to mullberry row which is the main plantation street, about 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research. We kn
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