Posted on 07/11/2022 11:14:58 AM PDT by bitt
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has drawn criticism for transforming Thomas Jefferson’s Charlottesville, Virginia, home into an exhibit on slavery.
The foundation manages Monticello — the primary plantation and residence of the founding father and third president of the United States.
Monticello was once a tribute to a man who helped draft the Declaration of Independence — the founding document of the U.S.
Now, the plantation’s management has transformed it into a site that emphasizes the fact that Jefferson enslaved people, the New York Post reported.
As the New York Post puts it, Monticello “offers visitors a harangue on the horrors of slavery.”
According to Monticello’s website, one of the ticketed tours on schedule for the plantation is the “Slavery at Monticello Tour.”
This tour highlights the “experiences of the enslaved people who lived and labored on the Monticello plantation,” the website stated.
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No one should go.
Horrors!
Did you know that the past Ruler of Egypt kept Jews as slaves, too?
400 years.
Cancel Egypt!
The Snowflake Walkers and their hookups, Girls Gone Wild Princess Walkers have flatout destroyed U.S. History and THE TRUTH. Everything now is just vomit spewed by seltzer-guzzling drug addicts. The Jackasses go to “college” and believe every damned thing the old 60s hippy drug addict “perfesers” tell them.
The foundation was forced to concede else crazed libtard zombies would burn it down 🤪
We toured Monticello a couple of years ago. An impressive place and there was a lot of narration about slavery.
Kinda like the Time Masheen in Idiocracy. We need to UN Nazi the world, forever.
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Don’t go now. Had the experience of going to Monticello with a Jeffersonian expert. Professor Brown from Penn State years ago. At that time the tour was excellent. The added benefit was having him fill in some of the issues. Fortunately, he did not dwell on slavery issues.
Everything the woke group touches turns to excrement.
I was there last year. There was much about “enslaved people” then too. You can avoid if you choose. We ignored it and didn’t take anything “narrated” and tour on your own.
Typical misdirection. Going after Jefferson 35 years after his death and before the civil war is not being genuine. There others that were alive at the time that have nevr been raked over the coals. Here are two:
“Robert E Lee owned a small number of slaves in his lifetime and considered himself a paternalistic master. There are various historical and newspaper hearsay accounts of Lee personally whipping a slave, but they are not direct eyewitness accounts.”
Lee’s father-in-law, G. W. Parke Custis, died in 1857 leaving Robert Lee as the executor of his estate, which included nearly 200 slaves. In his will, Custis stated the slaves were to be freed within five years of his death. On taking on the role of administrator for the Parke Custis will, Lee used a provision to retain them in slavery to produce income for the estate to retire debt. Lee did not welcome the role of planter while administering the Custis properties at Romancoke, another nearby the Pamunkey River and Arlington; he rented the estate’s mill. While all the estates prospered under his administration, Lee was unhappy at direct participation in slavery as a hated institution. In 1866, one of Lee’s former slaves, Wesley Norris, charged that Lee personally beat him and other slaves harshly after they had tried to run away from Arlington. He tried through the courts to continue the institution after the 5 year deadline but failed.
Born in what is now Todd County, Kentucky (and only about 100 miles from the birthplace of his famous contemporary, Abraham Lincoln), Jefferson Davis moved to Mississipi around 1810. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1828. By 1836 Davis was a plantation owner, and in the 1840s he owned over 70 slaves. About the closest he came to the resolutuion of slavery was that he offered a widely criticized plan to grant freedom to any slave willing to fight for the Confederacy.
Davis was a racist. In a speech to the U.S. Senate in 1860, the then-senator from Mississippi said slavery was “a form of civil government for those who by their nature are not fit to govern themselves,” adding “We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race by the Creator, and from cradle to grave, our government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority.” After his inauguration as president of the Confederacy, Davis said “We recognized the negro as God and God’s Book and God’s laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.”nd from cradle to grave, our government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority.” After his inauguration as president of the Confederacy, Davis said “We recognized the negro as God and God’s Book and God’s laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.”
Like I said, typical misdirection. Instead of pointing out the facts, they try to isolate and dirty a patriot.
wy69
I went in 2019 and had the option of either the slavery or garden tour. I took the garden as the slavery was filled with schoolkids and the garden was that smaller and quieter and led by a lovely lady who gave all sorts of interesting information and insights. That same day, I visited the nearby Highlands which was President Monroe’s place.
Article about the historical evidence and DNA allegations:
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: The Search for Truth
https://wallbuilders.com/thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-search-truth/
So this is not new.
I wonder if this Key and Peele slave auction video is part of the Slave Tour?
Pretty much mirrors the current attitudes of the DC beltway elites toward those of us in flyover country, doesn't it?
We need to get away from these people.
“We toured Monticello a couple of years ago. An impressive place and there was a lot of narration about slavery.”
I went like ten years ago and it talked about slavery, the slaves, slave quarters etc...
I assume they’ve now made slavery the focus and written an emotional narrative.
I believe the evidence said it was Thomas or his brother.
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