First thing you wouldve seen, most likely, would be enslaved people. There would be no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. We want to restore that and make that known to visitors that come here today. So we are now in the middle of recreating and restoring dwellings along mulberry row. The plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind that. All this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people. We are near jeffersons made house main house. And we are standing next to mulberry row, which is the main plantation street of monticello. 1300 feet through documentary research. Over 20 workshops and dwellings line the streets. There were enslaved families here, indentured servants, hired white artisans. And several of these were supervised by jefferson and members of his white family. Mountaintop,t this but was a 5000 acre plantation. This plantation is enormous. The centered activi
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
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