Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - 2011 Allan Martin Lecture
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people over the course of his adult life. Most lived and worked at his famous home, Monticello. Dr Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, examines Jefferson's complicated relationship to slavery - what he wrote about it and how he lived it at the plantation that occupies an iconic place in the American imagination.
Date & time
Tue 10 May 2011, 6–8pm
Location
Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road, ANU
Speakers
Dr Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University