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
Landscape of slavery. You had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the fist thing you would have seen most likely would have ben 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. [ construction noise ]. So were 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. So all of this is 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 mansion that he built throughout his life. And were standing next to mulberry row, the main plantation street at monticello. 1300 feet. We know that over 20 workshops, storehouses and dwellings line this street. They were enslaved families here, there were servants, hired white artisans.
Out, we have wet pavement out there this morning. Its not coming town too hard at the bay bridge toll plaza, but slow down and take it easy. Lets check in with mike. We have patchy showers out there. Theyll be intermittent throughout the day and heavier throughout today. Hi, everybody. Were starting this week wet. Heres a look at live doppler 7. You see the hills into the valley, the best radar returns, and snow down to 2,500 feet on either side of san jose. Get ready for waves of showers today. Some of them could be light to moderate. Temperatures barely making it to 50. Well talk more about tomorrows heavier rain cormi icoming up n. Lets go back to more news. Mike, good to see you. Were going to start with developing news in santa clara. Were expecting to hear from 49ers ceo after firing the head coach and general manager. The word came down yesterday, though there were rumors this was going to be happening all weekend long. He and gm trent baalke were out. Kelly was told after the t
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