Monticello's Narrative Under Scrutiny: Echoes of the Past Resurface
Monticello estate found a 250-year-old brick kiln. Curators are also changing how they tell the story of Sally Hemings and enslaved people.
#Monticello, #Archaeology, #SallyHemings, #ThomasJefferson, #History
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Archaeologists found a 250-year-old brick kiln at Monticello. This is part of new efforts to show the lives of enslaved people, like Sally Hemings.
#Monticello, #Archaeology, #SallyHemings, #ThomasJefferson, #History
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To be clear, #ThomasJefferson missed his wife so much, he took her enslaved half-sister as his sex slave and then enslaved their own children.
"That is, until a study of Jefferson and Hemings family DNA in 1998 proved that Jefferson had fathered Sally Hemings’ children. Then they ran to embrace Annette’s book.
It took DNA for the history of the Hemings family to be accepted by historians."
Lucian K. Truscott, a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson, writes,
"When my friend Annette Gordon Reed wrote her first book, 'Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” the establishment of Jefferson historians came down on her hard. They tried to stamp out any possibility that Annette’s book would be taken seriously as a work of history."
#ThomasJefferson #SallyHemings #slavery #racism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/let-us-now-celebrate-juneteenth
Since 2021, by act of Congress and the signature of President Joe Biden, June 19th is celebrated as National Independence Day, a federal holiday along with the 11 others officially recognized as national holidays: New Years Day, Martin Luther King’s birthday, Presidents’ Day (originally George Washington’s birthday), Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of slaves in the state of Texas on June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in the states of the Confederacy.
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