Jefferson died owing $107,000 (around $3 million today). He secured the debt by liens on the 130 slaves he owned. Today, Monticello stands as a monument to Jefferson’s genius. Downhill from that monument are stones that were the foundations for some of the plantation’s slave cabins. The cabins themselves have been lost to time.
Thank you for the incredible history lesson that no school will be allowed to teach. I did not shed a tear when the news broke that nottoway burned. There is no shortage of tour busses heading to the most “popular” ones. I’m told that stories told to the tourist include calling slaves, servants. Towns are named for plantations, streets are named for a plantations. Those names are reused over and over in big cities and small towns. The ever present reminders of the hate filled past and most people don’t know it.
Every one of them should be burned to the ground. God damn, what a poisonous legacy we have.
Thank you for the factual history!
Thank you for the real history of white wealth built on Black bodies.
Jefferson died owing $107,000 (around $3 million today). He secured the debt by liens on the 130 slaves he owned. Today, Monticello stands as a monument to Jefferson’s genius. Downhill from that monument are stones that were the foundations for some of the plantation’s slave cabins. The cabins themselves have been lost to time.
Wow! Thank you for the uncut version of history.
Burn them all down!
Thank you for the incredible history lesson that no school will be allowed to teach. I did not shed a tear when the news broke that nottoway burned. There is no shortage of tour busses heading to the most “popular” ones. I’m told that stories told to the tourist include calling slaves, servants. Towns are named for plantations, streets are named for a plantations. Those names are reused over and over in big cities and small towns. The ever present reminders of the hate filled past and most people don’t know it.
Facts shine light on the truth! Thanks.
Wow. Thanks for the true education. This is a lot to sit with 🙏🏾
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Now that's the mother of all reciepts, damn—debt paid, tho.
Wow. Thank you for the education.
Damn.
Perhaps the same Randolphs and the William Randolph that William Randolph Hearst descends from . . .