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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 ....