Come up this mountaintop, the first thing you would have seen is enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. We are now in the middle of recreating, restoring dwellings , the main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All of this is part of an effort to shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who made this possible. Now were near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion that he built throughout his life. We are sitting next to mulberry row, the main plantation street. Feet, 1,300 through archaeology and documentary research, we know over 20 workshops, storehouses, and dwellings blindness wind this street. There were indentured servants, slaves, and a lot of these workshops were overseen by jeffersons white family. This is the heart of monticello. This was a 5000 acre plantation. That is a square miles. This plantation is enormous. The center of activi
Come up this mountaintop, the first thing you would have seen is enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. We are now in the middle of recreating, restoring dwellings , the main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All of this is part of an effort to shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who made this possible. Now were near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion that he built throughout his life. We are sitting next to mulberry row, the main plantation street. Feet, 1,300 through archaeology and documentary research, we know over 20 workshops, storehouses, and dwellings blindness wind this street. There were indentured servants, slaves, and a lot of these workshops were overseen by jeffersons white family. This is the heart of monticello. This was a 5000 acre plantation. That is a square miles. This plantation is enormous. The center of activi