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Rebuilt Slave Sites Being Unveiled at Jefferson’s Monticello

Brett Zongker, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) โ€” The first log slave quarters with dirt floors to be rebuilt at Thomas Jeffersonโ€™s home were formally unveiled Saturday at Monticello, and descendants of more than 100 slaves from the third presidentโ€™s plantation marked the occasion in Virginia. Re-creating structures to represent slave life at the home […]

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