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Efforts. Or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations, not entirely sure. I went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure which is the right way to set but what i think is the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have erased the obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. And everyone here on this panel and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume the that slavery is some sort of addition or addon to the president ial histories but rather that the two are inextricable. To that and im really excited to each of us afternoons speakers talk about the work there and equate at the president ial plantations are some good introduced all of them to you now in the order which they will speak, and we had planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the inn for the panelist to both engage each other and the audience to ask questions here so f ....
Mountain Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It is a subject, which the Thomas Jefferson foundation has been a pioneer in researching and present a largely the collected essays published earlier this year by the university of virginia press. Theyre entitled by virtue my happiness, slavery of Thomas Jeffersons monticello is regarded as an authority on the subject. The book was released to coincide with an exhibit on slavery of monticello in the Smithsonian National museum of African American history which is cocurated by the staff of the Thomas Jefferson foundation. 70 of the descendents of those commemorated attended the opening night. After 5 ....
Joyce applebee, the great historian commented on this setting that after the 1784 limitation on slavery had failed, jefferson quote backed away from attacking the institution as his power to do something about it decrease. The other benchmark that i would like to point out is the Louisiana Purchase. There was a great opening of the west, great opening of the empire of the liberty, or when we acquired a territory that was great debate in congress. Should we have slavery there . And congress came very close to banning it and then passed prescriptions that so outraged the slaveholders who were already there that they threatened secession. They threatened to call in napoleon back in. People said if you dont allow slavery on lands there, they will depreciate in value by 50 . As all this is going on, it was a fresh mama, Congress Still have the will to restrict slavery. Jeffers ....
We were just waiting for opinions to greg. Benefits is really true, but it was in our interest for him to say that. Oddly enough, check presented up sort this radical feeling over there in france and before he left, he told thomas paine, williams short, another abolitionists over there going to get back to america, he was going to train slaves, settle them on land at sharecroppers and the certainty they would become good citizens and free people in the United States. But when he got back to the United States, things changed. He came back with his daughter, pat c. It turned out she needed a dowry because she met her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph and they decided to get married in a hurry from the only way jefferson could set them up in the household was to give them land and a lot of slaves. He gave his daughter 25, l ....