We visited Monticello last March. 99% of the theme was the “enslaved people” who were treated so terribly that they were sent to Paris to learn the culinary arts. Many of these “oppressed people” were dining off of fine bone china and even owned their own sets. I was appalled at the total revisionist narrative and lib spin.
As you read the placards of the actual history, the tour guides were telling you something completely different. Kind of like today’s mainstream media!
This is the “pick the racial scab story du jour”...
I went on the tour at Monticello too, and the tour was “all slavery all the time”. When question and answer time came I asked the tour guide if they were ever going to mention that Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence or that Thomas Jefferson was the third president. Even worse was the room with busts and paintings of famous people of Jefferson’s era. The tour guide condescendingly asked if anyone knew who they were. When no one else responded I named all of them. Then she actually said, “oh, you must have been on the tour before.” I said, “no, I’m educated.” Then she said, “you must have studied history.” “No, my degree is in engineering.” Horrible tour with snotty, condescending tour guides who treat everyone like they’re stupid. They should rename the Monticello tour The Sally Hemings Unsubstantiated Heritage Tour. How embarrassing that our nation’s history is treated in this manner. Can you imagine what foreign visitors must think? For better tours go to Mount Vernon and Booker T. Washington’s birthplace.
That’s funny. We went there a while back and our guide barely mentioned the slavery stuff. Hemings name was mentioned as a trusted servant and nothing else.
The guide was a black gentleman who was extremely knowledgeable regarding the President and his home.
I was expecting what you experienced and was pleased to not get it.