"Monticello"
©2010 Elroy Christenson

Monticello was Thomas Jefferson's plantation home near Charlotte, Va.  Jefferson was a true Renaissance man, designing and inventing different techniques for living. The kitchen is in the basement.  He had almost a hundred slaves and after his wife died he takes his wife's half sister, a mulatto slave as his consort.  He had four children by her although never marrying her or freeing her.  Her children were freed later but some had to pay for their freedom.