Trailblazer. Newspaper publisher. Civil rights titan. Meet William Monroe Trotter, one of the most influential descendants of Monticello’s enslaved community—and someone who too many people have never heard of.
Monticello historian John Ragosta discusses Jefferson's ideas about the value of a free press in the young democracy.
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