NPR’s Tell Me More host Michel Martin, and Annette Gordon-Reed, Prof. of Law, Harvard University, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family will discuss the lives of enslaved families living at Monticello alongside Jefferson and his family. They will also explore ideas about how Thomas Jefferson and the 11 other American Presidents who owned slaves could have used the power of their office to end slavery and improve the lives of free black communities across the U.S., but chose not to do so.
The speakers were introduced by Heather Taylor, NMAAHC.
Copies of The Hemingses of Monticello and Andrew Johnson will be available for purchase and signing.
The exhibition Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty is on view through October 14, 2012 in the NMAAHC's gallery space on level two at the National Museum of American History. For more information visit www.nmaahc.si.edu.
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