Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

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by Henry Wiencek


  enslaved people: see Aggy; Arthur; Barnaby; Bell, Mary Hemings; Bell, Robert; Bell, Sally; Billy; Black Sal; Caesar; Cary; Colbert, Brown; Colbert, Burwell; Colbert, Melinda; Douglass, Frederick; Edy; Evans, Jupiter; Evans, Phil; Evans, Suck; Fanny; Fennel; Flora; Fossett, Edith Hern; Fossett, Isabella; Fossett, James; Fossett, Maria; Fossett, Patsy; Fossett, Peter; Fossett, William; Freeman, John; Gawen; Goodman, Sally; Granger, Bagwell; Granger, George (“Great George”); Granger, George (“Smith George”); Granger, Isaac; Granger, Maria; Granger, Minerva; Granger, Ursula (“Queen”); Hall; Hannah; Hannibal; Harry; Hemings, Betty Brown; Hemings, Beverly; Hemings, Critta (b. 1769); Hemings, Doll; Hemings, Elizabeth “Betty”; Hemings, Eston; Hemings, Harriet; Hemings, James (b. 1765); Hemings, James “Jamey” (b. 1787); Hemings, Lucy; Hemings, Madison; Hemings, Martin; Hemings, Nance; Hemings, Peter; Hemings, Robert; Hemings, Sally; Hemings, Thenia; Hemings, Thomas; Hemmings, Betsy; Hemmings, John; Hemmings, Priscilla; Hercules; Hern, David; Hern, Frances “Fanny”; Hubbard, James; Hughes, Caroline; Hughes, Wormley; Jefferson, Israel Gillette; Jeffery; Jemmy; John; Lucy; Lundy; McCoy, Mary; Moses; Parthena; Patt; Phil; Quomina; Robin; Shackelford, Tom; Solomon; Tom; Turner, Nat; Washington, Booker T., Wheatley, Phillis; Will; Woodson, Tom

  Eppes, Elizabeth Wayles

  Eppes, Francis

  Eppes, John Wayles

  Eppes, Mary Jefferson (“Polly”)

  Euclid

  Evans, Jupiter (slave)

  Evans, Phil (slave)

  Evans, Suck (slave)

  Evans family (slaves)

  “Evening Shade”

  Fairfax County, Va.

  Fanny (slave)

  Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, The (Betts and Bear, eds.)

  Farm Book (Jefferson)

  Faulkner, William

  Federalist Party

  Fennel (slave)

  First Families of Virginia (FFV)

  Fleming, Thomas

  Fletcher, Elijah P.

  Flora (slave)

  Ford, Henry

  Forest plantation

  Fossett, Edith Hern (slave)

  Fossett, Isabella (slave)

  Fossett, James (slave)

  Fossett, Joseph (slave)

  Fossett, Maria (slave)

  Fossett, Patsy (slave)

  Fossett, Peter (slave)

  Fossett, William (slave)

  Fossett family (slaves)

  Foster, Ann

  Foster, Augustus John

  Foster, Clayton Randolph

  Foster, Eugene

  Foster, Susan Catharine

  Founders

  France

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Fredericksburg, Va.

  free blacks

  Free Colored Battalion of New Orleans

  Freehling, William W.

  Freeman, Douglas Southall

  Freeman, John (slave)

  Freeman, Melinda Colbert (slave): see Colbert, Melinda

  Free Some Day (Stanton)

  Free State

  Future Governor Edward Coles Freeing His Slaves While Enroute to Illinois 1819

  Garth, Thomas

  Gawalt, Gerard W.

  Gawen (slave)

  George III, King of England

  Georgia

  German Americans

  Gibboney, Stuart

  Giles, Billy

  Goodman, Jeremiah

  Goodman, Sally (slave)

  Grady, Reuben

  Granger, Bagwell (slave)

  Granger, George (“Great George”) (slave)

  Granger, George (“Smith George”) (slave)

  Granger, Isaac (also known as Isaac Jefferson) (slave)

  Granger, Maria (slave)

  Granger, Minerva (slave)

  Granger, Ursula (b. 1787) (slave)

  Granger, Ursula (“Queen”; b. 1737) (slave)

  Granger family (slaves)

  Great Britain

  Great Wagon Road

  Grégoire, Henri

  Hall (slave)

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hannah (slave)

  Hannibal (slave)

  Harry (slave)

  Hay, George

  Heath, Barbara

  Hemings, Betsy, see Hemmings, Betsy

  Hemings, Betty Brown (slave)

  Hemings, Beverly (slave)

  Hemings, Captain

  Hemings, Critta (b. 1769) (slave)

  Hemings, Doll (slave)

  Hemings, Elizabeth “Betty” (slave)

  Hemings, Eston (slave)

  Hemings, Harriet (slave)

  Hemings, James (slave)

  Hemings, James “Jamey” (b. 1787) (slave)

  Hemings, John, see Hemmings, John

  Hemings, Lucy (slave)

  Hemings, Madison (slave)

  Hemings, Martin (slave)

  Hemings, Mary (slave), see Bell, Mary

  Hemings Hemings, Nance (slave)

  Hemings, Peter (slave)

  Hemings, Robert (slave)

  Hemings, Sally (slave)

  Hemings, Thenia (slave)

  Hemings, Thomas (slave)

  Hemings family (slaves)

  Hemmings, Betsy (slave)

  Hemmings, John (slave)

  Hemmings, Priscilla (slave)

  Henry, Patrick

  Hercules (slave)

  Hern, David (slave)

  Hern, Frances “Fanny” (slave)

  Hochman, Steven H.

  Horace

  Howell, Samuel

  Howell v. Netherland

  Hubbard, James (slave)

  Hughes, Caroline (slave)

  Hughes, Stephen

  Hughes, Wormley (slave)

  Hylton, Daniel

  Illinois

  immigration

  impeachment

  indentured servants

  Indian Camp plantation

  “Inscription for an African Slave”

  interracial relations

  Irony of American History, The (Niebuhr)

  Irvine, Reed

  Ivory, James

  James River

  Jay, John

  Jefferson, Field

  Jefferson, Isaac (slave): see Granger, Isaac

  Jefferson, Israel Gillette (slave)

  Jefferson, Jane

  Jefferson, John Wayles

  Jefferson, Lewis

  Jefferson, Lucy

  Jefferson, Martha (“Patsy”)

  Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton

  Jefferson, Mary (“Polly”)

  Jefferson, Peter

  Jefferson, Randolph

  Jefferson, Thomas: in American Revolution; architectural interests of; Bacon’s recollections of; biographies of; birth of; blankets given by; in Boston; British creditors of; British criticism of; British pursuit of; butler of; cabinet of; carriages and wagons of; Chastellux’s relationship with; childhood of; Clinton compared with; clothing of; coffin of; Coles’s emancipation as viewed by; at College of William and Mary; congressional relations of; contradictions of; courtship by; criticism of; death of; debts of; Declaration of Independence written by; descendants of (see also specific descendants); DNA testing and; emancipation as viewed by; encyclopedia article by; Enlightenment ideals of; equal rights as viewed by; estate of; as father; fictional portrayals of; financial situation of; as Founder; “4 percent” formula of; free trade supported by; as governor of Virginia; as grandfather; Granger’s memoir of; grave site of; grocery bills for; guilt felt by; handwriting of; Hannah’s letter to; health of; height of; historical assessment and legacy of; in House of Burgesses; Howell defended by; Hubbard’s escapes as viewed by; hunting by; immigration opposed by; inaugural address of; interracial relationships as viewed by; inventions of; Kosciuszko’s will thwarted by; Lafayette’s relationship with; land owned by; as lawyer; legal documents of; libel case regarding; as liberal; library of; Louisiana Purchase approved by; Madison Hemings’s memoir of; manumission plans suggested by; as minister to France; Monticello plantation of,
see Monticello; moral values of; musical interests of; Native Americans as viewed by; in New York City; Paine’s correspondence with; personality of; personal servant of; in Philadelphia; as philosopher and scientist; physical appearance of; plow designed by; political opposition to; polygraph used by; Poplar Forest plantation of; popular image of; portraits owned by; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; as president; presidential campaign of (1796); press coverage of; psychoanalytic interpretation of; racial views of; rationalizations used by; religious beliefs of; reputation of; revolving book holder of; in Richmond; salary received by; Sally Hemings’s relationship with; as secretary of state; sexuality of; Short’s appeal to; slave children of (see also Hemings relations); as slave owner; slavery as viewed by; slaves bought by; slaves freed by; slaves sold by; spectacles worn by; University of Virginia established by; as vice president; violin played by; as Virginian; Wayles slaves inherited by; white children of (see also Jefferson and Randolph relations); at White House; white servants of; as widower; will of; in Williamsburg; wine cellar of; writings of; see also specific writings

  Jefferson at Monticello (Bear, ed.)

  Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson (Pierson)

  “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child” (Foster et al.)

  Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty, The (Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society)

  Jefferson Image in the American Mind, The (Peterson)

  Jefferson in Paris (film)

  “Jefferson’s Hints to Americans Travelling in Europe” (Jefferson)

  Jefferson Vindicated (Burton)

  Jeffery (slave)

  Jemmy (slave)

  John (slave)

  Johnson, Samuel

  Johnson, Walter

  Jones, John Paul

  Jones, Meriwether

  Jones, Nellie E.

  Jordan, Daniel P.

  Jouett, Jack

  Julien, Honoré

  Kelso, William

  Kentucky

  Kern, Susan

  Kimball, Fiske

  Kluge, John

  Kosciuszko, Thaddeus

  Kukla, Jon

  Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de

  Lander, Eric S.

  Langhorne, Elizabeth

  Lavoisier, Antoine

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lemaire, Etienne

  Lewinsky, Monica

  Lewis, Nicholas

  Lewis and Clark expedition

  Lexington, Ky.

  “Life Among the Lowly, No. 1”

  Lilly, Gabriel

  Lilly, Wilson

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Little Bighorn, Battle of

  Livingston, Robert

  Locke, John

  Lord, Alfred

  Louisiana Purchase

  Lucy (slave)

  Lundy (slave)

  Luzerne, Anne-César, Chevalier de La

  Lynchburg, Va.

  Madison, Dolley

  Madison, James (bishop)

  Madison, James (president)

  Madison, Wis.

  magnetometry

  Malesherbes, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de

  Malone, Dumas

  “Mammy Dinah”

  Manahan, Anna Anderson

  Mansfield, Harvey C.

  Mapp, Alf, Jr.

  “Marriage Settlement for Martha Jefferson”

  Marshall, John

  Martin, Russell Lionel, III

  Maryland

  Mason, George

  Massachusetts Historical Society

  Mayer, David N.

  McColley, Robert

  McCoy, Mary (slave)

  McDonald, Forrest

  McGehee, William

  McLaughlin, Jack

  Melville, Herman

  Memoirs of a Monticello Slave (Granger)

  métayage

  Mifflin, Daniel

  Mifflin, Warner

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, John Chester

  miscegenation, racial, see interracial relations

  Mississippi River

  Moby-Dick (Melville)

  Monroe, James

  Montalto Mountain

  Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de

  Monticello: agriculture at; Ancient Field of; approach road for; archaeological excavation of; artifacts related to; Bacon’s house at; blacksmiths for; British raid on; canal for; carpentry shop of; cellars of; cemeteries of; charts and maps of; Chastellux’s visit to; chefs and cooks of; clay soil of; construction of; cooper shop at; cotton crop of; dependencies of; design of; Dutch recapitalization for; engineering projects at; as family residence; farm accounts for; financing of; forests of; gardens of; gristmill for; harvests of; hearths at; kitchen of; landscape of; laundry for; living conditions at; mansion at; manufacturing at; Mulberry Row of; naileries (nail factories) at; overseers of; parking lots at; as plantation; profit-sharing at; research library of; Rochefoucauld-Liancourt’s visit to; roundabouts of; sale of; slave culture at; slave graveyard at; slave managers of; slave population of; slave quarters at; terrace of; textile mill for; tinsmiths for; tobacco crop of; tourists at; tunnels underneath; visitors to; wheat crop of; white artisans at; workshops at

  Monticello Mountain

  Morgan, Edmund

  Morgan, Philip

  Morse, Jedidiah

  Morven plantation

  Moses (slave)

  Mount Rushmore

  Mount Vernon

  “Mr. Jefferson’s Business” (Martin)

  mulattoes

  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French

  Native Americans

  natural law

  Nature

  Neilson, Joseph

  Neiman, Fraser

  Newman, Richard

  New Orleans

  New York State

  New York Times

  Nicholas, Wilson Cary

  Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson)

  “Observations on Soup” (Jefferson)

  “Of the Construction of Saucepans and Stewpans for Fixed Fireplaces”

  Ohio

  Oldham, James

  “On the Construction of Kitchen Fireplaces and Kitchen Utensils”

  Onuf, Peter

  Ordinance of 1784

  Ore, Billy

  “oyer and terminer” court

  Page, William

  Paine, Thomas

  Palladio, Andrea

  Papers (Jefferson)

  Parthena (slave)

  Parton, James

  Patt (slave)

  Pennsylvania

  Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

  Perry, John

  Petersburg, Va.

  Peterson, Merrill

  Phil (slave)

  Philadelphia, Pa.

  philosophes

  Pierson, Hamilton W.

  Pike County Republican

  Pilgrim Society

  Pleasants, Robert

  Pocahontas

  Pope, Alexander

  Poplar Forest plantation

  Powhatans

  “presentism”

  Price, Richard

  Prince of Wales

  Pybus, Cassandra

  Quakers

  Quomina (slave)

  “Quotations on Slavery and Emancipation” (Monticello website)

  Rand, Ayn

  Randall, Henry

  Randolph, Anne Cary

  Randolph, Cornelia

  Randolph, Edmund

  Randolph, Ellen

  Randolph, George Wythe

  Randolph, James Madison

  Randolph, Martha Jefferson (“Patsy”)

  Randolph, Sarah

  Randolph, Septimia (“Tim”)

  Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (“Jeff”)

  Randolph, Thomas Mann

  Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr.

  Randolph, Thomas Mann, III

  Ra
ndolph, Virginia

  Raynal, Abbé

  Republican Party

  rice

  Richmond, Va.

  Richmond Enquirer

  Richmond Examiner

  Richmond Recorder

  Rind, William

  Rittenhouse, David

  Rivanna River

  Robin (slave)

  Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duke de La

  root cellars

  Rush, Benjamin

  Safire, William

  Sally Hemings: A Novel (Chase-Riboud)

  Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter

  Schulman, Gayle

  Sedition Act (1798)

  Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours (Boles and Hall, eds.)

  Senate, U.S.

  September 11th attacks (2001)

  Shackelford, Tom (slave)

  Shadwell plantation

  sharecroppers

  Shenstone, William

  Short, William

  “silent profit”

  Skelton, Bathurst

  Skelton, Meriwether

  slavery/slaves (see also enslaved people): abolition of; African ancestry and traditions of; “agency” in; amelioration and diffusion of; as apprentices and artisans; auctions of; beating and whipping of; British opposition to; as “burden” for slave owners; catchers used for; census of; chaining of; as “childlike” or “incompetent”; children of; collars used for; colonies proposed for; as concubines; congressional debate on; constitutionality of; contracts with; death of; drinking by; drivers of; economic impact of; education of; elderly; emancipation of; enfranchisement for; equal rights for; executions of; expulsions of; families of; female; field; folktales and songs of; forced migration of; former, military service of; “free papers” of; French criticism of; fugitive or runaway; graveyards of; hanging of; healers used by; health of; hired; houses; as immoral system; imprisonment of; as inheritance; as institution; intelligence of; interracial relations of; laws on; living conditions of; manumission of; market for; marriages of; masters of (slave owners); myths about; as nannies; newspaper notices for; “passing” by (color line); personal loyalty of; plantation culture of; poisoning of; popular attitudes toward; population of; pregnancies of; “privilege”; productivity of; profit from; as property; quasi-freedom of; racist views on; rape of; rebellions by; re-enslavement of; religious background of; religious opposition to; during Revolution; sale of; skilled; skin color of; smallpox contracted by; social impact of; in Southern states; suicide of; in territories; theft by; tips given to; trade in; training of; “transporting” of; trials of; wages paid to; as wet nurses; white artisans and farmers compared with

  Sloan, Herbert E.

  Smith, Margaret Bayard

  Society of Friends of the Blacks

 

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