Our virtual connection with the folks at Monticello offered us an opportunity to see some of the rooms in the mansion and ask questions that came to mind. We will continue to learn more about Jefferson in the coming week.
"Best ideas; worst realities." That's how our host explained the perplexing relationship between Thomas Jefferson and slavery. It is indeed a contradiction in this great man's life - that he wished to end slavery, and tried in the Declaration of Independence, but that he owned over 600 slaves in his lifetime. It is an inner struggle that embarrassed Jefferson to the point that he masked the enslaved population at Monticello, building walls and secret passages so guests would have minimal interaction or visual connection with any person owned by Jefferson.
Our virtual connection with the folks at Monticello offered us an opportunity to see some of the rooms in the mansion and ask questions that came to mind. We will continue to learn more about Jefferson in the coming week.
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