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Authors: Henry Wiencek
Jefferson Vindicated
(Burton)
Jeffery (slave)
Jemmy (slave)
John (slave)
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Walter
Jones, John Paul
Jones, Meriwether
Jones, Nellie E.
Jordan, Daniel P.
Jouett, Jack
Julien, Honoré
Â
Kelso, William
Kentucky
Kern, Susan
Kimball, Fiske
Kluge, John
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus
Kukla, Jon
Â
Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de
Lander, Eric S.
Langhorne, Elizabeth
Lavoisier, Antoine
Lee, Robert E.
Lemaire, Etienne
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Nicholas
Lewis and Clark expedition
Lexington, Ky.
“Life Among the Lowly, No. 1”
Lilly, Gabriel
Lilly, Wilson
Lincoln, Abraham
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Livingston, Robert
Locke, John
Lord, Alfred
Louisiana Purchase
Lucy (slave)
Lundy (slave)
Luzerne, Anne-César, Chevalier de La
Lynchburg, Va.
Â
Madison, Dolley
Madison, James (bishop)
Madison, James (president)
Madison, Wis.
magnetometry
Malesherbes, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de
Malone, Dumas
“Mammy Dinah”
Manahan, Anna Anderson
Mansfield, Harvey C.
Mapp, Alf, Jr.
“Marriage Settlement for Martha Jefferson”
Marshall, John
Martin, Russell Lionel, III
Maryland
Mason, George
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mayer, David N.
McColley, Robert
McCoy, Mary (slave)
McDonald, Forrest
McGehee, William
McLaughlin, Jack
Melville, Herman
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
(Granger)
métayage
Mifflin, Daniel
Mifflin, Warner
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, John Chester
miscegenation, racial,
see
interracial relations
Mississippi River
Moby-Dick
(Melville)
Monroe, James
Montalto Mountain
Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de
Monticello: agriculture at; Ancient Field of; approach road for; archaeological excavation of; artifacts related to; Bacon's house at; blacksmiths for; British raid on; canal for; carpentry shop of; cellars of; cemeteries of; charts and maps of; Chastellux's visit to; chefs and cooks of; clay soil of; construction of; cooper shop at; cotton crop of; dependencies of; design of; Dutch recapitalization for; engineering projects at; as family residence; farm accounts for; financing of; forests of; gardens of; gristmill for; harvests of; hearths at; kitchen of; landscape of; laundry for; living conditions at; mansion at; manufacturing at; Mulberry Row of; naileries (nail factories) at; overseers of; parking lots at; as plantation; profit-sharing at; research library of; Rochefoucauld-Liancourt's visit to; roundabouts of; sale of; slave culture at; slave graveyard at; slave managers of; slave population of; slave quarters at; terrace of; textile mill for; tinsmiths for; tobacco crop of; tourists at; tunnels underneath; visitors to; wheat crop of; white artisans at; workshops at
Monticello Mountain
Morgan, Edmund
Morgan, Philip
Morse, Jedidiah
Morven plantation
Moses (slave)
Mount Rushmore
Mount Vernon
“Mr. Jefferson's Business” (Martin)
mulattoes
Â
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
Native Americans
natural law
Nature
Neilson, Joseph
Neiman, Fraser
Newman, Richard
New Orleans
New York State
New York Times
Nicholas, Wilson Cary
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson)
Â
“Observations on Soup” (Jefferson)
“Of the Construction of Saucepans and Stewpans for Fixed Fireplaces”
Ohio
Oldham, James
“On the Construction of Kitchen Fireplaces and Kitchen Utensils”
Onuf, Peter
Ordinance of 1784
Ore, Billy
“oyer and terminer” court
Â
Page, William
Paine, Thomas
Palladio, Andrea
Papers
(Jefferson)
Parthena (slave)
Parton, James
Patt (slave)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Perry, John
Petersburg, Va.
Peterson, Merrill
Phil (slave)
Philadelphia, Pa.
philosophes
Pierson, Hamilton W.
Pike County Republican
Pilgrim Society
Pleasants, Robert
Pocahontas
Pope, Alexander
Poplar Forest plantation
Powhatans
“presentism”
Price, Richard
Prince of Wales
Pybus, Cassandra
Â
Quakers
Quomina (slave)
“Quotations on Slavery and Emancipation” (Monticello website)
Â
Rand, Ayn
Randall, Henry
Randolph, Anne Cary
Randolph, Cornelia
Randolph, Edmund
Randolph, Ellen
Randolph, George Wythe
Randolph, James Madison
Randolph, Martha Jefferson (“Patsy”)
Randolph, Sarah
Randolph, Septimia (“Tim”)
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (“Jeff”)
Randolph, Thomas Mann
Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr.
Randolph, Thomas Mann, III
Randolph, Virginia
Raynal, Abbé
Republican Party
rice
Richmond, Va.
Richmond
Enquirer
Richmond
Examiner
Richmond
Recorder
Rind, William
Rittenhouse, David
Rivanna River
Robin (slave)
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duke de La
root cellars
Rush, Benjamin
Â
Safire, William
Sally Hemings: A Novel
(Chase-Riboud)
Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter
Schulman, Gayle
Sedition Act (1798)
Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours
(Boles and Hall, eds.)
Senate, U.S.
September 11th attacks (2001)
Shackelford, Tom (slave)
Shadwell plantation
sharecroppers
Shenstone, William
Short, William
“silent profit”
Skelton, Bathurst
Skelton, Meriwether
slavery/slaves (
see also
enslaved people): abolition of; African ancestry and traditions of; “agency” in; amelioration and diffusion of; as apprentices and artisans; auctions of; beating and whipping of; British opposition to; as “burden” for slave owners; catchers used for; census of; chaining of; as “childlike” or “incompetent”; children of; collars used for; colonies proposed for; as concubines; congressional debate on; constitutionality of; contracts with; death of; drinking by; drivers of; economic impact of; education of; elderly; emancipation of; enfranchisement for; equal rights for; executions of; expulsions of; families of; female; field; folktales and songs of; forced migration of; former, military service of; “free papers” of; French criticism of; fugitive or runaway; graveyards of; hanging of; healers used by; health of; hired; houses; as immoral system; imprisonment of; as inheritance; as institution; intelligence of; interracial relations of; laws on; living conditions of; manumission of; market for; marriages of; masters of (slave owners); myths about; as nannies; newspaper notices for; “passing” by (color line); personal loyalty of; plantation culture of; poisoning of; popular attitudes toward; population of; pregnancies of; “privilege”; productivity of; profit from; as property; quasi-freedom of; racist views on; rape of; rebellions by; re-enslavement of; religious background of; religious opposition to; during Revolution; sale of; skilled; skin color of; smallpox contracted by; social impact of; in Southern states; suicide of; in territories; theft by; tips given to; trade in; training of; “transporting” of; trials of; wages paid to; as wet nurses; white artisans and farmers compared with
Sloan, Herbert E.
Smith, Margaret Bayard
Society of Friends of the Blacks
Solomon (slave)
Somerset
decision (1772)
Sophocles
Sorensen, Leni
South Carolina
Spain
Stanton, Lucia
Sterne, Laurence
Stewart, William
Stras, George
Stratford Hall plantation
Styron, William
sub-floor pits
Summary View of the Rights of British America, A
(Jefferson)
Supreme Court, U.S.
swept yards
Â
Tarleton, Banastre
taxation
Taylor, Alan
tenant farmers
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
(Brodie)
Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights
(Daugherty)
Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
Thomson, Charles
Ticknor, George
Time
tobacco
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tom (slave)
Tournillon (plantation owner)
Towne, Robert
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Trist, Elizabeth
Trist, Nicholas
Trist, Virginia Randolph
Tristram Shandy
(Sterne)
Tuckahoe plantation
Tufton farm
Turner, Nat
Turner, Robert F.
Twain, Mark
Â
Underground Railroad
United States: agriculture in; British relations with; democratic government of; economy of; French relations with; immigration to; territories of
Â
Valley of Virginia
Van Staphorst, Jacob
Van Staphorst, Nicholas
Van Staphorsts & Hubbard
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de
Virginia: Assembly of; British invasion of; Chesapeake region of; colonial period of; Eastern Shore of; economy of; emancipation movement in; free blacks in; House of Burgesses of; Jefferson as governor of; legislature of; manumission law of (1782); manumissions in; markets in; plantations in; removal law of (1806); slavery in; as Southern state; taxation in
Virginia, University of
Virginia Federalist
Virginia Gazette
Voltaire
Â
Waldstreicher, David
Walker, Betsy
Walker, John
Wallenborn, White McKenzie
Wall Street Journal
War of 1812
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
Washington Federalist
Washington Post
Wasp
Watson, Davy
Wayles, John
Way of an Eagle, The
(Daugherty)
Wayson, Billy
Webster, Daniel
Wetmore, S. F.
wheat
Wheatley, Phillis
Wheeler, Derek
White House
Whitman, Walt
Whitney, Eli
Will (slave)
William and Mary, College of
Williamsburg, Va.
Wingo's farm
Wood, Gordon
Woodson, Tom (“President Tom”) (slave)
Wythe, George
Â
Yancey, Joel
Yarbrough, Jean
Yorktown, Battle of
Â
Zuckerman, Michael
Mansions of the Virginia Gentry
Plantations of the Old South
The Smithsonian Guides to Historic America: Southern New England
and
Virginia and the Capital Region
The Moodys of Galveston
National Geographic Guide to America's Great Houses
(with Donna M. Lucey)
Old Houses
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
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Master of the Mountain
originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
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.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiencek, Henry.
Master of the mountain: Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.â1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-4668-2778-3
1. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743â1826âRelations with slaves.
2. Monticello (Va.)âHistory. 3. SlavesâVirginiaâAlbemarle CountyâHistory. 4. Plantation lifeâVirginiaâAlbemarle CountyâHistory. I. Title.
E332.2. W54 2012
973.4'6092âdc23
2011052231
Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott
*
John spelled the name “Hemmings.”
*
Jefferson's father, Peter, gave his slaves only a pot and a pothook; everything else they had to get for themselves.
*
Randolph remarked on the pervasive, indeed defining influence of slavery upon a society, writing that colonies with few slaves were “dissimilarâ¦in manners, habits, ideas of religion and government from the states abounding in slaves.” James Monroe made a similar remark to Edward Coles (see
40
)