Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top that slavery wasnt visible. And we want to make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullbury row, that main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this was part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now, were actually just near jeffersons main house, the main plantation street at monticello, its about 1,300 feet. Through archaeology and documentary research, we foe that over 20 workshops storehouses and dwellings lined this street. There were enslaved families here, there were indentured servants and most of these were jefferson and his white family. So this
Page, facebook. Com booktv. October 21, 1967, 100,000 people marched in washington to protest the vietnam war. From the booktv archives. Pulitzer prize winning journalist david maraniss, who in 2002 allowed booktv to accompany him to vietnam and madison, wisconsin for his research in the war abroad and protests at home. This is a rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Members of the armys regiment known as the black lions were ambushed here. 61 were killed, many were injured. This is the university of wisconsin in madison. 35 years ago antiwar students try to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. The demonstration turned violent. These stories from different parts of the world come together in a new book titled they marched into sunlight. The author is david maraniss. Great to be here. Host you write connections fascinate you more than ideology. What does that mean . Guest it means im a journalist and a historian. Im not trying to make a specific point when i start my rep
We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. If you have come up to this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have end in slave people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible, and we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from jefferson and talk about the other people who essentially made his life possible. Just now, we are actually near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion he built throughout his life, and we are standing next to military row, which is the main plantation street at monticello, through archaeology and documentary research, we know that over 20 workshops, storehouses, and dwellings lined this street. There were in slaved families he
That have been revealed. If you had visited monticello 20 years ago, you would have just seen jeffersons beautiful new classical villa, but what we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. If you had come up to this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible, and we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now, we are actually just near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion he built throughout his life, and we are standing next to mulberry row which is the main p
20 years ago, you would have, the mountain and justine jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. What we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery because of you had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen would be enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. , maket to restore that that known to visitors who come here, today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring ,wellings along mulberry row 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 essentially made his life possible. Are just near jeffersons main house, the mansion that he built throughout his life. We are standing next to mulberry row, which is the main plantation street at monticello. It is about 1300 feet. Through documentary res