Presenters:
- Rex Ellis, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Elizabeth Chew, Curator, Monticello
Isaac Granger Jefferson (1775-c.1850)
In this session, Rex Ellis, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Elizabeth Chew, Curator at Monticello, will discuss the Smithsonian exhibition they co-organized. The exhibition considers the paradox that Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was a slave-holder all his life. It also examines the lives of enslaved families at Monticello and their family stories after slavery.
