Title: Master of the Mountain
Subtitle: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Description: So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves.
Places: Monticello Plantation
People: George Washington, Hemings Family Tree, Granger Family Tree, Jefferson/Randolph family Tree
Time periods: early 1700s to the late 1900s