Online Exhibitions Related to Slavery

How could the author of the Declaration of the Independence own slaves? How could twenty percent of the population of the new United States, founded on the principles of liberty and equality, live in bondage?

The Getting Word African American Oral History Project preserves the histories of Monticello’s enslaved families and their descendants from Jefferson's time to the present, creating an unparalleled archive of freedom.

 

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.

 

A database of information on all known enslaved individuals owned by Thomas Jefferson.