Posted on 02/21/2017 2:26:51 AM PST by iowamark
No....these were over by the gardens....west of the house. They were tiny huts. I was there in 1988.
I agree with you. I read all the info on the DNA results.
You’re right it’s Randolph, I remembered the name incorrectly!
If only Martin Luther King Jr., the only man to have a named federal holiday, was subject to the same evocative scrutiny.
Allow me to rephrase myself.
MLK wouldn’t have a his own national holiday if he was subject to the same scrutiny as Thomas Jefferson.
I had the same impression of the tour when I took it.
Perhaps they were sun shades for the field workers during the heat of the day.
Yes, you are correct in the technical sense. However, certainly Sally being “let go” was highly unusual since the estate was in severe debt and all the other slaves were sold who were not named in the will.
https://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/sale-monticello
True, but Heming value at sale would have been low. She was 58 years old, and her sole skill was as a seamstress. Virginia law required “freed slaves” to leave the state.
By allowing her to remain technically a slave, Hemings could live out her life with her sons and not be required to leave Virginia. That was the law, how rigorously that law was enforced, I don’t know.
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