Landscape of Slavery

Mulberry Row, the dynamic, industrial hub of Jefferson’s 5,000-acre agricultural enterprise.

As the principal plantation street, Mulberry Row was the center of work and domestic life for dozens of people—free whites, free blacks, indentured servants, and enslaved people. It was populated by more than 20 dwellings, workshops, and storehouses between 1770 and the sale of Monticello in 1831.

Explore Topics Family, labor, economy, punishment, and resistance shaped the lives of free and enslaved men, women, and children.

Meet the People of Mulberry Row Indentured servants, enslaved men and women, hired white artisans, and free blacks lived and worked on Mulberry Row.

Discover Work Mulberry Row laborers worked as skilled weavers, spinners, blacksmiths, tinsmiths, nail-makers, carpenters, house joiners, gardeners, stablemen, and domestic servants.

The dwellings and work spaces of Mulberry Row

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More than 20 structures were built on Mulberry Row during Jefferson’s lifetime, including the joiner’s shop, workmen’s house, nailery, and Negro quarter.