Category: Monticello
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Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello:Dark side of his views towards slavery
Click here to check out a fascinating new Smithsonian article about Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello, and the new information that challenges the long held perception that he had been a benevolent slaveholder. The piece indicates that, around 1792, Jefferson worked to make a 4 percent profit every year on the birth of the black children…
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