Epilogue
1. Stanton, Free Some Day, 141.
2. Advertisement for auction at Monticello, Special Collections, ViU; Stanton, Free Some Day, 141.
3. Lucia Stanton, "Monticello to Main Street," 102.
4. Ibid.
5. Albemarle County Deed Book, 32:412, Deed of Emancipation, Jan. 20, 1827.
6. Gordon-Reed, TJ and SH, 250; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s will, Family Letters Project. See Randall, Life, 3:562, recounting his conversation about the informal freeing of Wormley Hughes.
7. William Waller Hening, comp., The Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619, 13 vols. (Richmond, Va., 1809–23), 10:39; Stanton, Free Some Day, 156; Morris; Southern Slavery and the Law, 394.
8. Martha Jefferson Randolph’s will, Family Letters Project.
9. Gordon-Reed, SH and TJ, 209; Ervin L. Jordan Jr., "A Just and True Account: Two 1833 Parish Censuses of Albemarle County Free Blacks," Magazine of Albemarle County History 53 (1995): 137, 136, 129.
10. Merrill Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (New York, 1960), 380; Stanton, Free Some Day, 147–48.
11. Stanton, Free Some Day, 149.
12. Ibid., 158.
13. Ibid., 150–51.
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