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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Interpreting Thomas Jefferson Slavery 20240712

Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Interpreting Thomas Jefferson Slavery 20240712

In so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor, bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopened this weekend, due to a global pandemic. In recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments and memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in, and working here at monticello, we are a site of memory. Monticello ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Slavery At Thomas Jeffersons Monticello 20170501

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 ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Slavery At Thomas Jeffersons Monticello 20170820

Unfortunately, your advisors are frequently divided. If you take the wrong course and on occasion i have, the president bears the burden and responsibility quite rightly. The advisors may move on to new advisors. Christa if you had visited monticello, say, 20 years ago, you would have come up and just seeing jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. What we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery, because if you had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen, most likely, would be enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. 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 mulberry row, that 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 dozen ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Slavery At Thomas Jeffersons Monticello 20170820

Unfortunately, your advisors are frequently divided. If you take the wrong course and on occasion i have, the president bears the burden and responsibility quite rightly. The advisors may move on to new advisors. Christa if you had visited monticello, say, 20 years ago, you would have come up and just seeing jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. What we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery, because if you had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen, most likely, would be enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. 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 mulberry row, that 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 dozen ....

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